Social Commentaries
To his Brother Iohn Bancroft deceased
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
You sold your Land, the lightlyer hence to goe
To forraine Coasts: (yet Fates would have it so)
Did ne're New-England reach, but went with them
That Iourney towards New Ierusalem.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To his Brother Iohn Bancroft deceased.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/164/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To his Brother Iohn Bancroft deceased.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/164/.
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