I SIGH the Fate for which our broached eyes
Spend floods of brine; at which a dire surprise
Of a soul-chilling horror doth invade
The Soul not stone before; at which are made
In serious minds as many wounds as were
To Caesar egiven. Reader, shake to hear;
⟨p. 2⟩The DEATH of COLLINS tis. […] without
A Paper winding sheet to lay him out!
A shame. O that Egyptian Odours, and
Embalmers too fwere now at my command!
I want them. But Hyperboles withdraw,
Be gone Licentious Poets. What I saw
On this occasion let some country Rimes
That call a Spade a Spade, tell after-Times.
DEPRIVED of Chariots & of Horsemen too.g
I on the wings of Contemplation flew;
Into the howling desert thus I went,
The cut-off garden hwhere our David sent
His sheep to seed and fold, from which he drave
The Ravenous Tiger-brood, in which he gave
His herds a Rest at noon. iOn Jordans Banks
I meant to sit with Thoughts on this and Thanks
But there found I an Elect Lady, kThere
Grovelling in Ashes, with dishevelled hair,
Smiting her breast, blacked with a mourning dress,
Resembling mother Zion in distress;l
Or like a Rachel in a Bethlehem plight,m
But with a Beauty glittering too, that might
The Features show that Judah's preaching King
Much did once in his matchless Raptures sing;n
⟨p. 3⟩I found her. There amazed into a Treeo
Almost transformed with passion: Sympathy
Produced this Enquiry, Who I wonder,
Seems Sorrow's Centre, Sorrow's Essence yonder?
Lo, I no sooner had approached near,
Then from above this voice did […] Here
Pity, the Church of Middletown bespeaks
Set in the midst of swoons and sobs and shrieks.
With Bowels full of it I hastened to
The Wet place, asking Why she grieved so;
And had this Answer.
I SIGH the Fate for which our broached eyes
Spend floods of brine; at which a dire surprise
Of a soul-chilling horrour doth invade
The Soul not stone before; at which are made
In serious minds as many wounds as were
To Casar egiven. Reader, shake to hear;
⟨p. 2⟩The DEATH of COLLINS tis. 〈…〉 without
A Paper winding sheet to lay him out!
A shame. O that Egyptian Odours, and
Embalmers too fwere now at my command!
I want them. But Hyperboles withdraw,
Be gone Licentious Poets. What I saw
On this occasion let some countrey Rymes
That call a Spade a Spade, tell after-Times.
DEPRIV'D of Charrets & of Horsmen too.g
I on the wings of Contemplation flew;
Into the howling desart thus I went,
The cut-off garden hwhere our David sent
His sheep to seed and fold, from which he drave
The Rav'nous Tigre-brood, in which he gave
His herds a Rest at noon. iOn Jordans Banks
I meant to sit with Thoughts on this and Thanks
But there found I an Elect Lady, kThere
Grov'ling in Ashes, with dishev'led hair,
Smiting her breast, black'd with a mourning dress,
Resembling mother Sion in distress;l
Or like a Rachel in a Bethl'em plight,m
But with a Beauty glittering too, that might
The Features show that Judah's preaching King
Much did once in his machless Raptures sing;n
⟨p. 3⟩I found her. There amaz'd into a Treeo
Almost transformd with passion: Sympathie
Produced this Enquiry, Who I wonder,
Seems Sorrow's Center, Sorrow's Essence yonder?
Lo, I no sooner had approached near,
Then from above this voice did Here
Pitty, the Church of Middletown bespeaks
Set in the midst of swoons and sobs and shrieks.
With Bowells full of it I hastned to
The Wet place, asking Why she grieved so;
And had this Answer.
- ewhom the […]whom the 〈…〉
- fGen 50. 2.
- gall. to 2. King. 2. 12.
- hso same render the Garden of Nuts, Cant. 6. 11. in a phrase very accommodable to America.
- iCant. 1. 7.
- ksome (tho' groundlessly though) suppose a Church intended by that name in 2. Job 1.some (tho' groundlesly though) suppose a Church intended by that name in 2. Job 1.
- lall. to the figure thereof in B. K.'s ingenious poem.
- mMat. 2, 18.
- nviz. the Canticles,
- oall to such a metamorphosis celebrated in Ovid.
