Deniall

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1. WHen my devotions could not pierce
2. Thy silent eares;
3. Then was my heart broken, as was my verse:
4. My breast was full of fears
5. And disorder:
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7. My bent thoughts, like a brittle bow,
8. Did flie asunder:
9. Each took his way; some would to pleasures go,
10. Some to the warres and thunder
11. Of alarms.
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13. As good go any where, they say,
14. As to benumme
15. Both knees and heart, in crying night and day,
16. Come, come, my God, O come!
17. But no hearing.
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19. O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue
20. To crie to thee,
21. And then not heare it crying! all day long
22. My heart was in my knee,
23. But no hearing.
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25. Therefore my soul lay out of sight,
26. Untun'd, unstrung:
27. My feeble spirit, unable to look right,
28. Like a nipt blossome, hung
29. Discontented.
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31. O cheer and tune my heartlesse breast,
32. Deferre no time;
33. That so thy favours granting my request,
34. They and my minde may chime,
35. And mend my ryme.