Social Commentaries
A Crowne for constancy
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
In Aarons vesture, sumptuous to behold,
Betwixt small sounding bels of shining gold
Pomegranates stood, which native Crownes doe beare;
And in the utmost skirts these placed were:
To shew, that good workes (which pure bells expresse▪
Shall in Heavens Court be Crown'd with happinesse,
When in a course of constancy they have
Reacht the Lands-end of life, the finall grave.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A Crowne for constancy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/392/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A Crowne for constancy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/392/.
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