The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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FRAGMENT.
[The Sheep of gentle Westley's fold]
The Sheep of gentle Westley's fold,If right I read their doctrine, hold
That Grace descends, not like the dew
Pouring a blessing o'er the general earth,
But falls upon a chosen Few,
The Children of the Second Birth:
Not that this Grace doth most abound
In pure and consecrated Ground;
For Sin, they tell you, like Manure,
Makes the Crop plentiful and sure. [OMITTED]
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