' SionJ Elegiu. Surceafe your forrows, and your joyes attend, For beaven bath fpoke it, and.your griefs 1hall end : Believe it Sion ; feek no curious fign, And wait heaven's pleafure, as heav'n waited thine i And thou triumphing Edotn, that doft lie . In Beds ofRofes, thou whof~ profp'rou,s eye Did fmile, to fee the gates'ofSion fall, Shalt be fubjeB:ed to the felf fame thrall; Sion, that weeps, 1hall fmiie : and Edoms eye, That fmil~s fo faft, as faft .fhall fhortly err· ( ttb r.Jtt~"l'ttttt~:tcttttcbt~f$~~·~·:0 1beProphetJeremyhi-s Pray~ I . ' er for the diflreffed_People fJ/ Jerufalenl andSion. · ~ · I ' GReat God, before whofe aii-difcerning eye; The (ecret corners ofmans heart do lie ·. As open as his a8:ions, which no .cloud · Of fecrefie can !bade, no thade can 1hrowd : Fehold the tears, 0 hearken to the crys Of thy poor Sion ; Wipe her weeping eys, Bind up tier bleeding wounds, 0 thou that art The befl: Cbyrurgion for a broken heart: See how the barbarous Gentilerhave -intruded Into the land of promife,and~xcluded · -. Thofe rightful owners from their juft poffeffions, That wander now full laden with oppreffions ; ' Our fathers ( ah ! )'their favage hands have flain, Whofe deaths our widow-mothers weep in vain; O~r Springs, whole Chrillal plenty once difburft T~eir bquntegu~ favours to ~uench every thirft : . '
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