LII. Anonymous. Stanzas. Edward Farr, ed. 1845. Select Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Stanzas

LII. Anonymous


From “The Love of God.” ENGLAND 1 is blest and loued of God:
Who can the same deny?
For she hath felt his louinge rod,
Because she went awrye.

Deserve she dyd more to be whypt;	5
Her faultes they were so great:
Who dyd not see how far she slypt
From law and iustice seat?

The word so frely taught and preacht,
As no land had it more;	10
When teachers truelye truth them teacht,
They set by it no store.

They kept it not in hart and minde
To lead thereby theyr life:
If they had ben to God so kynde,	15
Then had not come the stryfe.

Note 1. LII. Anonymous.—This author wrote a small poem, which consists only of a few leaves, entitled “The Loue of God.” There is no date to it, but it bears internal evidence of having been written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. [back]

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