Holiness on the head,
   Light and perfections on the breast,
       Harmonious bells below, raising the dead
   To lead them unto life and rest:
          Thus are true Aarons drest.
          Profaneness in my head,
   Defects and darkness in my breast,
       A noise of passions ringing me for dead
   Unto a place where is no rest:
         Poor priest, thus am I drest.
         Only another head
  I have, another heart and breast,
      Another music, making live, not dead,
  Without whom I could have no rest:
         In him I am well drest.
         Christ is my only head,
  My alone-only heart and breast,
      My only music, striking me ev'n dead,
  That to the old man I may rest,
         And be in him new-drest.
         So, holy in my head,
  Perfect and light in my dear breast,
      My doctrine tun'd by Christ (who is not dead,
  But lives in me while I do rest),
         Come people; Aaron's drest.
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