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A book for boys and girls

or, Country Rhimes for Children. By J. B. [John Bunyan]
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)

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VII. Upon the Fish in the Water.

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The water is the Fishes Element:
Take her from thence, none can her death prevent.
And some have said, who have Transgressors been,
As good not be, as to be kept from sin.

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The water is the Fishes Element:
Leave her but there, and she is well content,
So's he who in the path of Life doth plod,
Take all, says he, let me but have my God.
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The water is the Fishes Element:
Her sportings there to her are excellent.
So is God's Service unto Holy men,
They are not in their Element till then.
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