Social Commentaries
Earth to earth
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
In Peru lives the Foxe-like Cincia, which
Kind nature doth with a strang bagge enrich,
Under her belly plac'd; to which (in feare)
Her stragling young ones hast to hide them there:
Th' all feeding Earth the like maternall part
Performes to us, which (when the fatall Dart
Of death affrights, and strikes us downe for sin)
Sets ope a grave, and takes her off-spring in.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Earth to earth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/384/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “Earth to earth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/384/.
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