Social Commentaries
Comfort in calamity
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
In frosty times most starry fires are seene;
And when afflictive sorrowes are most keene,
God comfort daignes, and so to us doth show
His lightfull face, that we his favour know.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Comfort in calamity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/294/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Comfort in calamity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/294/.
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