ZION in DISTRESS: OR, THE GROANS OF THE Protestant CHRUCH.Lam. I, 12. Is there any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow?Vers. 17. Zion spreadeth forth her Arms, and there is none to comfort her.Vers. 20. Behold, O Lord, I am in DISTRESS!—Quis talia FandoTemperet a lachrimis?—Virgil.LONDON: Printed by George Larkin, for Enoch Prosser, at the Sign of the Rose and Crown in Sweethings-Alley, at the East End of the Royal Exchange, 1681.SION in DISTRESS: OR, THE GROANS OF THE Protestant CHRUCH.Lam. I, 12. Is there any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow?Vers. 17. Sion spreadeth forth her Arms, and there is none to comfort her.Vers. 20. Behold, O Lord, I am in DISTRESS!—Quis talia FandoTemperet a lachrimis?—Virgil.LONDON: Printed by George Larkin, for Enoch Prosser, at the Sign of the Rose and Crown in Sweethings-Alley, at the East End of the Royal Exchange, 1681.Title page of Zion in distress, London, 1681Zion in distressSion in distressBenjamin Keach, 1681

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

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To my Friend the AUTHOR, Upon His REVIVED POEM.

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

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Here's Grief in Raptures! Who could thus infuse

HEre's Grief in Raptures! Who could thus infuse

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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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To my Friend the AUTHOR, Upon His REVIVED POEM.

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

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To my Friend the AUTHOR, Upon His REVIVED POEM.

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