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Fons Lachrymarum

or a fountain of tears: From whence doth flow Englands Complaint, Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphras'd with Divine Meditations and an elegy Upon that Son of Valor Sir Charles Lucas. Written by John Quarles
Quarles, John (1624-1665)

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Meditat. 1.

Delion is fallen upon Ossa's back,
The more I cry for help, the more I lack.
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There's none will look upon me, how I lie
In the Charibdis of perplexity.
Escaping Scilla, Oh I thought I'd been
Past danger, but Charibdis was not seen.
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