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. 19.
To what a downfall are our fortunes come,Subjected to the suffrance of a doome,
Whose lingring torments Hell could not conspire
More sharp! than which, hell needs no other fire:
How nimble are our Foemen to betray
Our soules? Eagles are not so swift as they:
Where shall we flee? Or where shall sorrow finde
A place for harbour? Ah, what prosp'rous winde
Will lend a gale, whose bounty ne're shall cease,
Till we be landed on the Ile of peace?
My foes more fierce than empty Lions are;
For hungry Lions, woo'd with teares, will spare.
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