Poetry Friday -- Quadragesima

Quadragesima(The possession of Mercy Short, Winter 1692/3,in Boston. It is Cotton Mather who speaks.)These cases are brought to our attentionof late; that we who want not for evilsmight see how our children in afflictionwould speak in tongues of spirits and devils.These young ones, easy prey to suggestion,throw off counsel of the godly for others':"Why falls it to our own generationto mend the