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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

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Is like a Show'r, which ere we can get in,
Into our Conscience, wets us to the skin:

Is like the falling of an April Shower;
'Tis often Raine, and Sun-shine, in an hower.

Is a long Showre, beginning with the Light,
Oft-times continuing till the Dead of night.

It is a hideous Mist, that wetts amaine,
Though it appeare not in the forme of Raine.

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It is a sudden Showre, that teares in sunder
The Cope of Heav'n, & alway comes with Thunder.

Is like a fethered Showre of Snow, not felt,
But soakes toth' very skin, when ere it melt:

Does like a Showre of Hayle, both wet and wound
With sudden Death: or strikes us to the Ground.

It is a sulph'rous Shower, such as fell
On Sodom, strikes, and strikes toth' Pit of Hell.