Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Lxxxviii. [75]

English poem

Lxxxviii. [75]

by (1631–1705)

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“As for your care to get a share   in Bliss; the fear of Hell, And of a part in endless smart,   did thereunto compel. Your holiness and ways redress,   such as it was, did spring From no true love to things above,   But from some other thing.