Divine poems Containing The History of Ionah. Ester. Iob. Sampson. Sions Sonets. Elegies. Written and newly augmented, by Fra: Quarles |
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Eleg 17.
Rent from the glory of her lost renowne,Sion laments; Her lips (her lips o'reflowne
With floods of teares) she prompteth how to breake
New languages, instructs her tongue to speake
Elegious Dialects; She lowly bends
Her dusty knees upon the earth, extends
Her brawnlesse armes to them, whose ruthlesse eyes
Are red, with laughing at her miseries;
Naked she lies, deform'd, and circumvented,
With troopes of feares, unpitied, unlamented,
A loathsome draine for filth, despis'd, forlorne;
The scorne of Nations, and the childe of scorne.
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