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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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78. To Christ.

Lord! thou Hopes Anchor art; which never fails;
A Sea of Love; the Ship, where our Faith sails.
Thou art Salt to the Earth; Sun, to the Sky:
The Ransom, paid for Souls captivity.
Destruction was destroy'd; Death by thee slain:
Who thought, Death could have suffer'd Deadly Pain?