Social Commentaries
To Iordan, wherein Christ was baptized
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Iordan, that in the Type of Heaven dost spring,
And of all rivers mayst be stiled King,
Crown'd with thine owne delightfull plants, that lave
And deckt their tresses in thy glassy wave,
How happy wast thou, that the King of Kings
(More sweet, more faire, than all thy meads & springs)
Was dipt in thee! Thenceforth thy current should
Have stood for Iasper, set in bankes of gold.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Iordan, wherein Christ was baptized.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/292/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Iordan, wherein Christ was baptized.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/292/.
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