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 | Miscellaneous works of George Wither |  |
If for the sins of Nations and of Kings
GOD casts out Governours, and Judgements brings
Upon a People; What man can resist
His hand, or mend the matter, till he list?
Who doth not stand obliged to maintain
The Pow'r that GOD sets up, whilst it must raign,
Although it shall oppress him, and were sent
To be, for his defaults, a punishment?
And, who so little reason understands,
That when without advancing of his hands
He, by anothers act, (through GOD's permission,
May of his long-lost Freedom gain fruition)
Will not accept it, when it may be had,
Although they who were fools, will be so mad
To venture their own lives, those to betray
That would not be as very slaves as they?
GOD casts out Governours, and Judgements brings
Upon a People; What man can resist
His hand, or mend the matter, till he list?
Who doth not stand obliged to maintain
The Pow'r that GOD sets up, whilst it must raign,
Although it shall oppress him, and were sent
To be, for his defaults, a punishment?
And, who so little reason understands,
That when without advancing of his hands
He, by anothers act, (through GOD's permission,
May of his long-lost Freedom gain fruition)
Will not accept it, when it may be had,
Although they who were fools, will be so mad
To venture their own lives, those to betray
That would not be as very slaves as they?
| Miscellaneous works of George Wither | |