Sions Elegies: The Invocation

THou Alpha and Omega, before whom,
Things past & present & things yet to come,
Are all alike; O prosper my designes,
And let thy spirit inrich my feeble lines;
Revive my passion; let mine eye behold
Those sorrowes present, which were wept of old:
Strike sad my Soule, and give my Pen, the Art
To move; and Me, an understanding heart.
O, let the Accent of each word, make knowne,
I mixe the Teares of Sion, with mine owne:
Preserve all such, as beare true hearts to Sion.
We are thy Lambes, O, be thou still our Lion.