Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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Eleg. 18.
Sowre wages issue from the sweets of sin,Heavens hand is just, this trecherous heart hath bin
The author of my woes: 'Tis I alone;
My sorrowes reap, what my foule sins have sowne;
Often they cry'de to heaven, e're heaven reply'd,
And vengeance ne're had come, had they ne'r cride;
All you that passe, vouchsafe your gracious eares,
To heare these cries; your eyes, to view these tears;
They are no heat-drops of an angry heart,
Or childish passions of an idle smart,
But they are Rivers, springing from an eye,
Whose streams, no joy can stop, no griefe draw drie.
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