 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
Africa's Lights.
Poor Asia almost Lost. alas! alas!
I come to Africa in Egypt were
A famous light, now small Achilles was
The Alexandrian light, and Joseph there
Lewis the Second alms for Africk steers.
I come to Africa in Egypt were
A famous light, now small Achilles was
The Alexandrian light, and Joseph there
Lewis the Second alms for Africk steers.
In Lybia Some gleanings still abide.
Mahometans these Climates so infest
There are but few the Gospell barge to guide
And men of name we finde not here possesst.
At which great Sorrow doth Constrain my breast.
Mahometans these Climates so infest
There are but few the Gospell barge to guide
And men of name we finde not here possesst.
At which great Sorrow doth Constrain my breast.
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |