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Alexander Pope: Minor poems
Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
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Alexander Pope: Minor poems
V.
On a lady's drinking the Bath-waters.
She drinks! She drinks! Behold the matchless Dame!
To her 'tis Water, but to us 'tis Flame:
Thus Fire is Water, Water Fire, by turns,
And the same Stream at once both cools and burns.
Alexander Pope: Minor poems