Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Lxx. [60]

English poem

Lxx. [60]

by (1631–1705)

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“All this,” quoth he, “may granted be,   and your case little better’d, Who still remain under a chain   and many irons fetter’d. You that the dead have quickened,   and rescu’d from the grave. Yourselves were dead, yet ne’er needéd   a Christ your souls to save.