 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
African Lights.
Poore Africa how lean art thou, wee finde
Two onely at thy Alexandria nam'de.
Cosmas who from Monothelites did winde
Fell into Image worship and is maim'd.
Politian's the other, meanly fam'de.
Two onely at thy Alexandria nam'de.
Cosmas who from Monothelites did winde
Fell into Image worship and is maim'd.
Politian's the other, meanly fam'de.
I fetch a Sigh over the Mid-Sea iles
Finding no torches there but such as are
Set up to Images, which wasts my Stiles
Ore into Europe, and do take her aire,
In Phoce, and Macedonia all bare[.]
Finding no torches there but such as are
Set up to Images, which wasts my Stiles
Ore into Europe, and do take her aire,
In Phoce, and Macedonia all bare[.]
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |