The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule Set foorth by Sir William Leighton |
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To God the Father. |
The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule | ||
To God the Father.
Well-spring of deity God God-head giuer,who giu'st away, yet kepest what was giuē
A fountaine vndiminisht by thy riuer,
Riuer and fountaine both in fullnes euer.
Father by euerlasting generation,
Without precedence in paternity:
Whether it be of substance or relation.
For all things are togither in eternity:
Disclose the depth, take frō my muse obscurity,
Thine hidden depth, which makes my verse an oracle
So shall I both attaine vnto thy purity.
And all ye read my lines conceiue this miracle.
How God in getting of another, yet,
Another not an other God did gett.
FINIS.
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