IDENTILIN$$  F186AAF1 GHerb transl.|Mapletoft Vol.| pp. 473.\E:JMK\mf\2-5-01\p&c:mvf\mf(AF1)\2-26-07
186A.AF1.HE1 [see_ll.1-2]
186A.AF1.001 [as_HE]%XA Sheaf of snakes used heretofore to be my
186A.AF1.002 [as_HE]%XSeal, the Crest of our Poor Family.
186A.AF1.003 Adopted in Gods Family, and so
186A.AF1.004 Our old Coat lost, unto new Armes I go.
186A.AF1.005 The cross (my Seal at Baptism) spread below,
186A.AF1.006 Does by that form, into an Anchor grow.
186A.AF1.007 Crosses grow Anchors, Bear, as thou shouldst do
186A.AF1.008 Thy Cross, and that Cross growes an Anchor too
186A.AF1.009 But he that makes our Crosses Anchors thus
186A.AF1.010 Is Christ, who there is crucifid for us.
186A.AF1.011 Yet may I, with this, my first serpents hold,
186A.AF1.012 God gives new blessings and yet leaves the old.
186A.AF1.013 The Serpent may, as wise, my pattern be,
186A.AF1.014 My poison, as he feeds on dust, that's me.
186A.AF1.015 And as he rounds the Earth to murder sure
186A.AF1.016 My death he is, but on the Cross my Cure.
186A.AF1.017 Crucifie Nature then, and then implore
186A.AF1.018 All Grace from him crucifi'd there before:
186A.AF1.019 When all is Cross and that Cross Anchor grown,
186A.AF1.020 This Seals a Catechism not a Seal alone.
186A.AF1.021 Under that little Seal great gifts I send,
186A.AF1.022 Works, and prayers pawns and fruits of a friend.
186A.AF1.023 And may that Saint which rides in our great Seal,
186A.AF1.024 To you, who bear his name, great bounties deal.
186A.AF1.0SS
186A.AF1.0$$ Ll. 1-2 serve as a heading, & the body of the poem starts at l.3; 
"Reliquiae%: Donnianae%L" in top margin as section HE