One sorry fret, An anvill Sparke, rose higher, And in thy Temple falling, almost set The house on fire. Such fireballs dropping in the Temple Flame Burns up the building: Lord, forbid the same.
ATTRIBUTION:
Edward Taylor (1645–1729), U.S. poet. An Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain (l. 25–30). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
