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Sions Elegies: Threnodia IIII, Eleg. 15
From Divine Poems (1633), Sions Elegies
PRophets, and sacred Priests, whose tongues whilere
Did often whisper in th'Eternalls eare,
Disclos'd his Oracles, found ready passage
Twixt God, and Man, to carry heavens Embassage,
Are now the subjects of deserved scorne,
Of God forsaken, and of man forlorne;
Accursed Gentiles are asham'd to know,
What Sions Priests are not asham'd to doe;
They see and blush, and blushing flee away,
Fearing to touch things, so defil'd as they;
They hate the filth of their abomination,
And chace them forth, from their new conquer'd nation.
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Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia IIII, Eleg. 15.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/664/.
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Quarles, Francis. “Sions Elegies: Threnodia IIII, Eleg. 15.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/664/.
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