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Upon Sir John Laurence's Bringing Water over the Hills to My L. Middlesex His House at Witten
From Works (Thompson, 1910)
And is the water come ? sure 't cannot be ;
It runs too much against philosophy :
For heavy bodies to the centre bend ;
Light bodies only naturally ascend.
How comes this then to pass ? The good knight's skill
Could nothing do without the water's will :
Then 'twas the water's love that made it flow ;
For love will creep where well it cannot go.
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Suckling, John. “Upon Sir John Laurence's Bringing Water over the Hills to My L. Middlesex His House at Witten.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/67/.
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Suckling, John. “Upon Sir John Laurence's Bringing Water over the Hills to My L. Middlesex His House at Witten.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/67/.
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