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2      That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound;
3A subtle harvest of unbounded bread,
4      What would ye more? Here food itself is fed.

Notes

1] First published in Steps to the Temple, 1646. Some of the epithets were revised in the enlarged edition of 1648, and in Carmen Deo Nostro (1652). There are also earlier Latin versions. Back to Line