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ANNUS MIRABILIS:
259.
While by the Motion of the Flames they guess
What Streets are burning now, and what are near:
An Infant, waking, to the Paps would press,
And meets, instead of Milk, a falling Tear.
While by the Motion of the Flames they guess
What Streets are burning now, and what are near:
An Infant, waking, to the Paps would press,
And meets, instead of Milk, a falling Tear.
260.
No thought can ease them but their Sovereign's Care,
Whose Praise th' Afflicted as their Comfort sing:
Ev'n those whom Want might drive to just despair,
Think Life a Blessing under such a King.
No thought can ease them but their Sovereign's Care,
Whose Praise th' Afflicted as their Comfort sing:
Ev'n those whom Want might drive to just despair,
Think Life a Blessing under such a King.
261.
Mean time he sadly suffers in their Grief,
Out-weeps an Hermite, and out-prays a Saint:
All the long Night he studies their Relief,
How they may be suppli'd, and he may want.
Mean time he sadly suffers in their Grief,
Out-weeps an Hermite, and out-prays a Saint:
All the long Night he studies their Relief,
How they may be suppli'd, and he may want.
262.
Kings's
Prayer.O God, said he, thou Patron of my Days,
Guide of my Youth in Exile and Distress!
Who me unfriended brought'st, by wondrous ways,
The Kingdom of my Fathers to possess.
Kings's
Prayer.O God, said he, thou Patron of my Days,
Guide of my Youth in Exile and Distress!
Who me unfriended brought'st, by wondrous ways,
The Kingdom of my Fathers to possess.
263. Be
