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. 20.
Vouchsafe, oh thou eternall Lord of pitty,To looke on Sion, and thy dearest City,
Confus'd Ierusalem, for thy Davids sake,
And for that promise, which thy selfe did make
To halting Isr'el; loe, thy hand hath forc'd
Mothers (whom lawlesse Famine hath divorc'd
From deare affection) to devoure the bloomes,
And buds, that burgeond frō their painful wombs;
Thy sacred Priests and Prophets, that while-ere
Did hourely whisper in thy neighbouring eare,
Are falne before the sacrilegious sword,
Even where, even whilst they did unfold thy word,
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