Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.
God Hears and Answers PrayerXVII. Anonymous
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And thy repentant sighes, shall haue accesse
Before the throne of heaven; beleeue God cares
For mortall men, and would their happinesse.
Of soules that do repent of their amis;
A broken hart is a sweete sacrifice,
Whose sauour at God’s hand accepted is.
Hee is so mercifull, so kind, so good:
From true conuerts hee doth not long detaine
The riches of his loue and pretious blood.
Or did his bitter teares fall vnrespected?
Nor praiers nor teares were of their entrance bar’d;
Both praiers and teares being so well directed.
And to the eares of God they were presented,
Who swift to heare his seruant humbly sew,
Thus by his prophet’s mouth his dome relented.
And where with sicknesse thou wert visited,
Behold! I make the whole, and fifteene yeares
Thy life vpon the earth bee lengthened.
Y
And from the vault of heauen an eccho haue,
Bee free! O hart, soule, voice, in one agree:
Y