Social Commentaries
Gods Image
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Likenesse breedes love; and therefore God did make
Man as his Image, that he thence might take
A deare occasion in deepe love to fall
With his high Lord, whose grace surmounts to all.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Gods Image.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/249/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Gods Image.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/249/.
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