piteous

The lambs athirst for mother's milk

Filled all the place with piteous sounds:

Their mothers' bones made white for miles

And more and more abound

For piteous passion keen at having found,

After exceeding ill, a little good;

Till they had earned it there. So then this child

Was piteous to me ; for all told me then

Her parents must have left her to God's chance,

Thence in what ways we wandered, and how strove

To build with fire-tried vows the piteous home

Which memory haunts and whither sleep may roam,--

First 'twas a piteous thing to see a man

So love a woman, see a living thing

Enough is me to paint out my unrest,

And pour my piteous plaints out in the same.

And all the way, with great lamenting paine,

And piteous plaints she filleth his dull eares,

That stony hart could riven have in twaine, 390

For some of them say more, and some say less,

When they his piteous passion express;

I mean of Mark and Matthew, Luke and John;