Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Henry Lok: 1593-1597, Sonnet II
Henry Lok focused upon Calvinist biblical devotion.
EXILD be mortall cares, raysd be my song,
To treat–with stile condigne–Thy honor still,
O mighty Ioue, Who heauen and Earth dost fill
With myrror of Thy power: to Thee belong
All powers and wils, of body and of mind,
Thou mak'st and blessest with Thy prouidence;
Thy bountie to the needy is so kind,
As nought but mercie and loue proceedeth thence:
At our right hand a readie safe defence,
If Satan's practise once assaile vs will;
Thou holy motions dost in vs distill,
And dost illuminate our dullèd sence:
Thou dost redeeme, fro out the enemies throng
The innocent, whom worldlings vse to wrong.
Website Terms of Use