Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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The Shepherds Dialogue.
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The Shepherds Dialogue.
In three parts.
1.
Come, let us finde the BabeThat hath made
This our World so full of joy
And expectation;
That glorious blessed boy
That crowns each Nation
With his triumphant Wreaths of blessedness.
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2.
Doubtless he is within the throng,Just among
His Angels that divinely sing,
Taking wing;
So as to eccho to his voice,
They rejoyce
With Wing, with Tongue, and Heart,
That so they do perceive their happiness.
3.
But attended is as nowWith a Cow;
The Ox and Mule do all behold
With wonder,
An homely Stable should unfold
The Thunder.
What an Almighty God have we!
Great, great, as is our Miserie.
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