The Reflection. Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. R7317 A57734 Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737. Poems on several occasions. Written by Philomela. London Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street 1696 p. 43. [24],72,69,[11]p.; 8⁰

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The Reflection . WHere gilde my thoughts , rash inclinations stay , And let me think what 'tis you fool away , Stay ere it be to late , yet stay and take , A short review of the great prize at stake . Oh ! stupid folly 'tis eternal Joy , That I'm about to barter for a toy ; It is my God oh dreadful hazard where , Shall I again the boundless loss repair ! It is my Soul a Soul that cost the blood , And painful agonies of an humbled God , Oh blest occasion made me stay to think , Ere I was hurri'd off the dangerous brink , Should I have took the charming venom in , And cop'd with all these terrors for a sin , How equal had my condemnation been ?