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Bersaba

Or, The Love of David. A Poem. Written by Samuel Cobb
Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713)
 
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THE Love of David, &c

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Are then thy Prophets false? thy Promise vain?
Didst thou for this the Race of man ordain?
Have we not fix'd a stated time, when All
Shall in one universal Ruin fall?
When the disorder'd Elements shall burn,
Wither in Flames, and to their Nothing turn.
Till then, Great Father, let thy Thunder sleep,
Till then the Terrour of thy Lightning keep
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