Social Commentaries
Light enough in the Scriptures
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Who taxe the Scriptures with obscurity,
Are like old Eli, that could scarce descry
The hallowed Lamps: for in those leaves doth shine
A Sunne, that did our cloudy flesh refine.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Light enough in the Scriptures.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/344/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Light enough in the Scriptures.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/344/.
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