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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

PHINEAS FLETCHER

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1580-1650

222.

A Litany

DROP, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from Heaven The news and Prince of Peace: Cease not, wet eyes, His mercy to entreat; To cry for vengeance Sin doth never cease. In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears; Nor let His eye See sin, but through my tears.

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