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Poesis Rediviva

or, Poesie Reviv'd. By John Collop
 
 

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The Leper cleans'd.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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The Leper cleans'd.

Hear, Lord, hear
The Rhet'rick of a tear:
Hear, hear my brest;
While I knock there, Lord take no rest.
Open! ah open wide,
Thou art the door, Lord, open; hide
My sin; a spear once entred at thy side.
See! ah see
A Na'mans leprosie!
Yet here appears
A cleansing Jordan in my tears.
Lord, let the faithless see
Miracles ceas'd, revive in me.
The Leper cleans'd, Blinde heal'd, Dead rais'd by thee.
Whither? ah whither shall I fly,
To heav'n? my sins, ah sins there cry!
Yet mercy, Lord, O mercy! hear
Th' atoning incense of my prayer.

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A broken heart thoul't not despise.
See! see a Contrites sacrifice!
Keep, keep, viols of wrath keep still:
I'le viols Lord of Odors fill:
O prayers, sighs, grones, and tears a shower;
This precious ointment forth i'le power:
I'le 'noint, wash, wipe, kisse, wash, wipe, weep;
My tears Lord in thy bottle keep.
Lest flames of lust, and fond desire,
Kindle fresh fuel for thine ire,
Which tears must quench, like Magdalene,
I'le wash thee Lord, till I be clean.