Deniall

When my devotions could not pierce                     Thy silent ears;

Then was my heart broken, as was my verse:           My breast was full of fears                     And disorder:     My bent thoughts, like a brittle bow,                     Did flie asunder:

Each took his way; some would to pleasures go,           Some to the warres and thunder                     Of alarms.     As good go any where, they say,                     As to benumme Both knees and heart, in crying night and day,           Come, come, my God,

O come,                     But no hearing.     O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue                     To cry to thee,

And then not hear it crying! all day long           My heart was in my knee,                     But no hearing.     Therefore my soul lay out of sight,                     Untun'd, unstrung:

My feeble spirit, unable to look right,           Like a nipt blossome, hung                     Discontented.

O cheer and tune my heartlesse breast,                     Deferre no time;

That so thy favoures granting my request,           They and my minde may chime,                     And mend my ryme.