Francis Quarles: Hosanna or divine poems on the passion of Christ and Threnodes Edited by John Horden |
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Of St. Stephen. |
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Of St. Stephen.
Some names are ominous, wherein wise fateWrites in fare Characters mens future state;
Hippolitus who scorn'd incestuous sports
Was torne with horses, as his name imports.
Stephen was a Crowne, which shew'd in time to come
He should put on the Crown of Martyrdome.
A Crowne enchas'd with stones, nay such a one
Earth cannot boast, 'twas all of precious stone;
The storme of stones which at this Martyr flew
Recoild, inriched with an Orient hue.
The meanest flint which at this Saint was throwne,
Reflects a Rubie, or some richer stone.
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As first our Martyrs Crowne, so now his tombe.
Muse, make a Pagan wonder: thus set down,
Here lyes a man intombed in his crowne.
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