Richard Crashaw


DIVINE EPIGRAMS.

To our Lord, upon the Water made Wine.
THOU water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life ;
    Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,
Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,
    And so turns wine to water back again.




Source:
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw. William B. Turnbull, Ed.
London: John Russell Smith, 1858.  22.



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