Silex scintillans

(...)"graduating, and to have passed some time in London in the study of law. From law he turned to arms—for he was evidently an ardent Royalist, and, like other of the metaphysical poets, appears to have taken a more or less bloodless part in the Civil Wars. During the Commonwealth period he returned home, and spent his years partly in practising physic—in which, says the biographer above-named, "he became at length eminent ",—partly in writing and preparing for the press the two parts of the book to which he owes his fame. Surviving both the Restoration and the Revolution, he died in 1695, and little .more is known of him save the dates of publication of his works,' and the facts that he was married and predeceased a wife, and that he owed his conversion to an examination of George Herbert's "holy life and verses". Henry Vaughan's poems are contained in the following volumes:-—Eucharistia Oxoniensis, a collection of verses written by Oxford men to congratulate the king on his return from Scotland (to this anthology, issued in 1641, a writer called H. Vaughan contributed an ode); Poems, with the tenth satyre of Juvenal Englished, by Henry Vaughan, gent., a book of love poems published in 1646; the first part of Silex Scintillans, or Sacred Poems and private Ejaculations, which bears the date of 1650; Olor Iscanus, a volume of secular verse which appeared in 1651; a fresh edition of Silex Scintillans, which added the second part to the poems, and is dated 1655; and Thalia Rediviva (1678), which, in addition to its secular pieces, contains some " Pious Thoughts and Ejaculations"(...)"