London :: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street,
1633.
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"Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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Psalme 137.
I.
BY Euphrates flowry sideWe did bide,From deare Juda farre absented,Tearing the aire with our cryes,And our eyes,With their streames his streame augmented.
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II.
When, poore Syons dolefull state,Desolate;Sacked, burned, and inthrall'd,And the Temple spoil'd, which weeNe'r should see,To our mirthlesse mindes wee call'd▪
III.
Our mute harpes, untun'd, unstrung,Up wee hungOn greene willowes neere beside us,Where, we sitting all forlorne;Thus, in scorne,Our proud spoylers 'gan deride us.
IV.
Come, sad Captives, leave your moanes,And your groanesUnder Syons ruines bury;Tune your harps, and sing us layesIn the praiseOf your God, and let's be merry,
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V.
Can, ah, can we leave our moanes?And our groanesUnder Syons ruines bury?Can we in this Land sing LayesIn the praiseOf our God, and here be merry?
VI.
No; deare Syon, if I yetDo forgetThine affliction miserable,Let my nimble joynts becomeStiffe and numme,To touch warbling harpe unable.
VII.
Let my tongue lose singing skill,Let it stillTo my parched roofe be glewed,If in either harpe or voiceI rejoyce,Till thy joyes shall be renewed
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VIII.
Lord, curse Edom's traiterous kinde,Beare in mindeIn our ruines how they revell'd,Sack, kill, burne, they cry'd out still,Sack, burne, kill,Downe with all, let all be levell'd.
IX.
And, thou Babel, when the tideOf thy prideNow a flowing, growes to turning;Victor now, shall then be thrall,And shall fallTo as low an ebbe of mourning.
X.
Happy he who shall thee waste,As thou hastUs, without all mercy, wasted,And shall make thee taste and seeWhat poore weeBy thy meanes have seene and tasted.
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XI.
Happy, who, thy tender barnesFrom the armesOf their wailing mothers tearing,'Gainst the walls shall dash their bones,Ruthlesse stonesWith their braines and blood besmearing.
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