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A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for childrenA book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children
A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhymes for children by J.B.A book for boys and girls, or, Country rhimes for children by J.B.
London: printed for N.P., 1686
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A BOOK FOR Boys and Girls, &c. › Poem 5: V Meditation upon Peep of day.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I hope, I doubt, but steady yet I be not,
I hope, I doubt, but steddy yet I be not,
I am not at a point, the Sun I see not.
Thus 'tis with such, who Grace but now possest,
They know not yet, if they are curst or blest.
VI. Upon the Flint in the Water.
This Flint, time out of mind, has there abode, Where Chrystal Streams make their continual Road; Yet it abides a Flint as much as 'twere, Before it touched the Water, or came there. Its hard obdurateness is not abated, 'Tis not at all by water penetrated.