Social Commentaries
Epigram 21. Of the River Cham
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
Why crooked Chams dull streams so slowly move,
It is, cause it with Cambridge is in love?
Poor river! thy Amours as vain decline,
For water Schollars care not for, but wine.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 21. Of the River Cham.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/188/.
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