Social Commentaries
On a fire in a Town
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 2
Social Commentaries
One night through all the streets the men did crie
Fire fire! at which I wak't and wondred by;
Not that drie wood should burn, but because all
Did crie fire, when they should for water call.
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Heath, Robert. “On a fire in a Town.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/248/.
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Heath, Robert. “On a fire in a Town.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/248/.
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