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Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 4
From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies
DIsturbed Lyons are appeas'd with blood,
And ravenous Beares are milde, not wanting food,
But heaven (ah heaven!) will not implored be:
Lyons, and Beares are not so fierce as Hee:
His direfull vengeance (which no meane confines)
Hath crost the thriving of my best designes;
His hand hath spoild me, that erewhile advanc't me
Brought in my foes, possest my friends against me;
His Bow is bent, his forked Rovers flie
Like darted haile-stones from the darkned skie,
Shot from a hand that cannot erre, they be
Transfixed in no other marke, but me.
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Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 4.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/632/.
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Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia III, Eleg. 4.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/632/.
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