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. 5.
Even as the Pilot, whose sharpe Keele dividesTh'encountring waves of the Cicilian Tides,
Tost on the lists of death, striving to scape
The danger of deepe mouth'd Charybdis rape,
Rebuts on Scylla, with a forc'd careere,
And wrecks upon a lesse suspected feare;
Even so poore I, contriving to withstand
My Foemans, fall into th'Almighties hand;
So I, the childe of ruine, to avoid
Lesse dangers, by a greater am destroy'd:
How necessary, Ah! How sharp's his end,
That neither hath his God, nor man, to friend!
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