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Jordanis

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Title:     Jordanis
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

Quid celebras auratam undam, et combusta pyropis
Flumina, vel medio quae serit aethra salo?
Aeternum refluis si pernoctaret in undis
Ph[oe]bus, et incertam sidera suda Tethyn
Si colerent, tantae gemmae! nil caerula librem:
Sorderet rubro in littore dives Eos.
Pactoli mea lympha macras ditabit arenas,
Atque universum gutta minuta Tagum.
O caram caput! O cincinnos unda beatos
Libata! O Domini balnea sancta mei!
Quod fortunatum voluit spectare canalem,
Hoc erat in laudes area parva tuas.
Jordanis in medio perfusus flumine lavit,
Divinoque tuas ore beavit aquas.
Ah! Solyma infelix rivis obsessa prophanis!
Amisit genium porta Bethesda suum.
Hic Orientis aquae currunt, et apostata Parphar,
Atque Abana immundo turbidus amne fluit,
Ethnica te totam cum f[oe]davere fluenta,
Mansit Christicola Jordanis unus aqua.


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Henry Vaughan's poem: Jordanis

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