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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Of Grief. |
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Of Grief.
The tears come slowly, Lord, my sins remain:O sting my shallow fords, and make them rain
Rivers of waters; or, if so thou please,
Send daring death my sorrows to decrease.
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Then cleanse me, Lord, from sin, and ease my thrall,
That I may say, O, death, where is thy sting?
And tell the world, The sting of death is sin.
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