Versos English Benjamin Keach SION'S Children

English poem

SION'S Children

by (1640–1704)

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Our Common Danger, and the Real Sence (which we have got by dear Experience) Of those Advantages, our Cruel Foe Gets by our Factions, will unite us so, As that our Enemies shall ne'er prevail To break our League, or make our courage fail: But tell, dear Mother, has some new affright So dis-compos'd you, that you fear our Light Is near Extinction? tell your Sons, we pray, What are the Symptoms of th'expiring Day. Why do you judge, that England's Day of Grace Draws to an Evening, and declines apace? Shew some Prognosticks of that dismal Night, That Threatens to succeed our Gospel-Light.