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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems,
elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.]
The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part
according to Tremelius.
CHAP. I.
1. How sits this citie, late most populous,
Thus solitary, and like a widdow thus?
Amplest of Nations, Queene of Provinces
She was, who now thus tributary is?
2. Still in the night she weeps, and her teares fall
Downe by her cheekes along, and none of all
Her lovers comfort her; Perfidiously
Her friends have dealt, and now are enemie.
3. Vnto great bondage, and afflictions
Iuda is captive led; Those Nations
With whom she dwels, no place of rest afford,
In streights shee meets her Persecutors sword.
4. Emptie are the gates of Sion, and her wayes
Mourne, because none come to her solemne dayes.
Her Priests doe groane, her maids are comfortlesse,
And shee's unto her selfe a bitternesse.

[CW: 5. Her]