Sioru Elegies• ... ( . l!.LE.G. X7• R Ent from the glory ofher loft renown, J . Sion laments ·; Her lips (her lips o'rftown With floods of tears ) fhe promp.teth h?w to break New l~nguages, infl:ru8:s her tong~e to fpeak Elegious Diale8s ; She, lowly bends ' · · Her dufiy knees upoJ?. the earth, extends Her brawmefs arm~ to-Ehem, whofe ruthlefs eys Are red,with laughing at her miferies; Naiq:d fbe lies,deform~d, and circumvented With troops of fears, unpiti~d, unla~ented, Alo~thfome ' drain for filth, defpis'd, forlorn~ T}le fcorn of Nations, and the child of fcorn. ' ) SOur wages iffue from the fweets offin·, · . Heavens hand is juft,this treacherou:s heart bathbi~ The Author ofmy woes: 'Tis I alone; My forrows reap, what 1l1Yfoul fins have fown; Often they cry'd to Heaven, fr Heaven reply'd, And vengeance ne:'r had ·come, had they ne'r cry'd ~ All you that pafs, vouchfafe your gracious ears, To h~ar thef~;:ries ; yo~reys, to view th~fe tears They are no fieat-dr.ops of an angry hea'rr, Or childifh paffion' of an idle fmart ., l3ut they are Rivers fpringing from an eye, Whofe fircams, no joy can fl:op, no griefdrawdry. . ... ' '' 11. LE G. 19, ~Urnwl:ere I lifi, new r.aufe of woe prefents · . i J.. Mypoor difiratted foul with new laments; · · · Where
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