Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Xc. [77]

English poem

Xc. [77]

by (1631–1705)

Listen in the reader

“Your Penitence, your diligence   to Read, to Pray, to Hear, Were but to drown the clam’rous sound   of Conscience in your Ear. If light you lov’d, vain glory mov’d   yourselves therewith to store, That seeming wise men might you prize,   and honor you the more.