Fons Lachrymarum or a fountain of tears: From whence doth flow Englands Complaint, Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphras'd with Divine Meditations and an elegy Upon that Son of Valor Sir Charles Lucas. Written by John Quarles |
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Meditat. 46.
When on the ladder Jacob did discryThe Angels in his dream, he saw them fly
Upwards, and downwards, which was to express
How much they scorn'd, and hated Idleness:
Then learn my Soul, how to ascend apace
From sin, to the perfection of grace.
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