Social Commentaries
Epigram 13. Of Men
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
How rude is mankind grown! savager far
And more inhumane then the brute beasts are!
When our first great Grandsire enjoy'd the joys,
The walks, and Groves of glorious Paradise,
When in the State of Innocense he stood,
(That little while he was completely good)
And ere his beauteous Mate was made, He then
Was King of beasts, and not a King of men.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 13. Of Men.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/180/.
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