The gates of Azza, post and massy bar,

Up to the hill by Hebron, seat of giants old,

No journey of a sabbath-day, and loaded so;

Like whom the Gentiles feign to bear up Heaven. 150

Which shall I first bewail,

Thy bondage or lost sight?

Prison within prison

Inseparably dark.

Thou art become (Oh worst imprisonment!) 155

The dungeon of thyself; thy soul