Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Ccxiii. [172]

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Ccxiii. [172]

by (1631–1705)

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The least degree of misery   there felt is incomparable; The lightest pain they there sustain   is more than intolerable. But God’s great pow’r from hour to hour   upholds them in the fire, That they shall not consume a jot   nor by its force expire.