Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Cxxxvi. [115]

English poem

Cxxxvi. [115]

by (1631–1705)

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“And none but lie such lenity   and patience would have shown To you so long, who did him wrong,   and pull’d his Judgment down. How long a space, stiff-neck’d race,   did patience you afford? How oft did love you gently move,   to turn unto the Lord ?

The day of Grace now past