Social Commentaries
To old Sir Iohn Harpur of Swarston, deceased
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
AS did cold Hebrus with deepe grones
The Thracian Harper once lament,
So art thou with incessant mones
Bewayled by thy dolefull Trent,
While the astonisht Bridge doth show
(Like an Arch-mourner) heaviest woe.
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