Absent upon Public Employment
Anne Bradstreet
All things within this fading world hath end,
Proem.
O Lord, Thou hear'st my daily moan
I had eight birds hatched in one nest,
What shall I render to Thy name
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage,
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear,
If ever two were one, then surely we.
O thou Most High who rulest all