Amour 19

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Title:     Amour 19
Author: Michael Drayton [More Titles by Drayton]

If those ten Regions, registred by Fame,
By theyr ten Sibils haue the world controld,
Who prophecied of Christ or ere he came,
And of his blessed birth before fore-told;
That man-god now, of whom they did diuine,
This earth of those sweet Prophets hath bereft,
And since the world to iudgement doth declyne,
Instead of ten, one Sibil to vs left.
Thys pure _Idea_, vertues right Idea,
Shee of whom _Merlin_ long tyme did fore-tell,
Excelling her of _Delphos_ or _Cumaea_,
Whose lyfe doth saue a thousand soules from hell:
That life (I meane) which doth Religion teach,
And by example true repentance preach.

[The end]
Michael Drayton's poem: Amour 19

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