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+------ Thema: Herrick, Robert: Dean Bourn, a Rude River in Devon, by Which Sometimes He Lived (/showthread.php?tid=16114)
Herrick, Robert: Dean Bourn, a Rude River in Devon, by Which Sometimes He Lived - ZaunköniG - 01.07.2007
Dean Bourn, a Rude River in Devon, by Which Sometimes He Lived
Dean Bourn, farewell; I never look to see
Dean, or thy warty incivility.
Thy rocky bottom, that doth tear thy streams
And makes them frantic, ev'n to all extremes;
To my content, I never should behold,
Were thy streams silver, or thy rocks all gold.
Rocky thou art; and rocky we discover
Thy men; and rocky are thy ways all over.
O men, O manners; now, and ever known
To be a rocky generation!
A people currish; churlish as the seas;
And rude (almost) as rudest savages.
With whom I did, and may re-sojourn when
Rocks turn to rivers, rivers turn to men.