Social Commentaries
Percolation of Waters
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Sea-waters finding passage through the clay,
Lose saltnesse, (as experienc'd Writers say)
And with a sweeter relish please the sence:
So, than the mournfull teares of penitence,
Which sinners through their earthen Organs straine)
No water is more sweete, more soveraigne.
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