Living
Cowley's Style
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Dispenser of wide-wasting woe,
Creation's laws you overthrow.
Mankind in your fierce flames you burn
And drown in their own tears by turn.
Deluged had been the world in vain,
Your fire soon dried its clothes again.
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