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THESAURO-PHULAKION[Greek]: or, A treasury of divine raptures

Consisting of Serious Observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically rank'd and fil'd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. The first part [by Nicholas Billingsley]

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128. On a Brook.

The bubling brook that wantons up and down
The flowry enameld Meads, and trips upon
The murmering pebbels, slips into the main,
And still payes tribute to the watry Plain:
Ev'n so to God who first to us conveys,
His love, should we return the streams of praise.