A47607:1186
Zion in distressSion in distress
Zion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Church [sic]Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]
London: printed by George Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
My boundless, helpless grief wide open sets
The Sluices for its streaming Rivulets.
The Sluces for its streaming Rivulets.
The very Air, dressed in Prodigious Forms,
The very Air, drest in Prodigious Forms,
Must groan in Thunder, and must weep in Storms.
Nature, of strong Convulsions sickned is,