Social Commentaries
Gods Bounty
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
No mortall hath seene God, few heard him speake;
(Hence is their love so cold, their faith so weake:)
Yet all his goodnesse taste, which (like the shower
On Gideons Fleece) he on all flesh doth powre.
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