Social Commentaries
No peace without piety
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Ionas once gone from God, on sea or ground
Nor calme of peace, nor shine of comfort found;
But vainely aiming at contentment, is
Like a faint Souldier, that his rest doth misse.
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