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 |
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Meditat. 12.
And should I strive to reckon up my sins,How can he make an end, that still begins?
The sands upon the Seas, nay and then hair
Upon my head, are Cyphers in compare
Of my excessive sins, yet Heav'n can call
Me, as he did the spend-thrift Prodigal.
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