Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part II. - I - How Soon, Alas!
Part II. To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I How soon, alas! did Man, created pure By Angels guarded, deviate from the line Prescribed to duty: woeful forfeiture He made by willful breach of law divine. With like perverseness did the Church abjure Obedience to her Lord, and haste to twine, 'Mid Heaven-born flowers that shall for aye endure, Weeds on whose front the world had fixed her sign. O Man, if with thy trials thus it fares, If good can smooth the way to evil choice, From all rash censure be the mind kept free; He only judges right who weighs, compares, And in the sternest sentence which his voice Pronounces, ne'er abandons Charity.
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