Versos English Michael Wigglesworth Xli. [36]

English poem

Xli. [36]

by (1631–1705)

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“For then it was that I did pass   through sorrows many a one; That I drank up that bitter Cup   which made me sigh and groan. The Cross’s pain I did sustain;   yea more, my Father’s ire I underwent, my Blood I spent   to save them from Hell-fire.