Social Commentaries
Our Saviours Parentage
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
This flower of Iesse had his blessed birth
From Heaven deriv'd, though planted here on Earth;
Resembling those whereof fam'd Maro sings,
Whose beauties beare th'enscribed names of Kings.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Our Saviours Parentage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/318/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Our Saviours Parentage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/318/.
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