A Litany

By Phineas Fletcher

1580-1650


DROP, drop, slow tears,
         And bathe those beauteous feet
Which brought from Heaven
         The news and Prince of Peace:
Cease not, wet eyes,
         His mercy to entreat;
To cry for vengeance
         Sin doth never cease.
In your deep floods
         Drown all my faults and fears;
Nor let His eye
         See sin, but through my tears.

DayPoems Poem No. 222
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