Phineas Fletcher. 1580-1650
222. A Litany
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55 words

DROP, drop, slow tears,   And bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from Heaven   The news and Prince of Peace: Cease not, wet eyes,   His mercy to entreat; To cry for vengeance   Sin doth never cease. In your deep floods   Drown all my faults and fears; Nor let His eye   See sin, but through my tears.

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Sir John Beaumont. 1583-1627
223. Of his Dear Son, Gervase
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68 words
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