The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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The Crie
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The Crie
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Speak, everlasting WORD, oh speak,That I may break
These Bonds of Death, & by
My Resurrection make Reply.
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Thy potent Voice wak'd that vast DeepWhich lay asleep
In deadly Darknes, and
Rowz'd a World by its stout Command.
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Thy Prophet Thou didst summon fromHis living Tombe,
Where twice-devoured He
Lay drownd both in the Whale, & Sea.
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What though this Death wherein poor IDeep-plunged ly,
Be more profound then all
The Sea, more monstrous then the Whale?
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What though the Worlds dark Wombe was notSo foule a Grott
As this in which I grope?
Yet I am still in ken of Hope.
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The deepest Deeps are shallow foundWhen Thou dost sound:
And I shall Rise, deer LORD,
Yf Thou but soundst with thy sweet Word.
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