Zion in distressSion in distress

Name: Sion in distress
Author: Benjamin Keach

Zion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Church [sic]Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed by George Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681

[6], 128 p. · 27k words · Wing K87 · ESTC R27452

Title page typeset from the transcription.

To my Friend the AUTHOR, Upon His REVIV'D POEM.

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.

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All Strains of Sorrow? No Aonian Muse

All Strains of Sorrow? No Aonnian Muse

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Such Sacred Rhapsodies could e'er inspire:

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Nor were they borrowed from Apollo's Quire.

Nor were they borrow'd from Apollo's Quire.

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No Inspiration from the Thespian Spring,

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Does teach our Poet in this mode to sing.

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He sucks no Hippocrene, nor feeds upon

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