WATER NEVER THE SAME
Beside a flowing river sit and gaze,
And see how it perpetually runs
In wave on wave, in many thousand turns,
As through the fields it takes its fluid ways.
Thou'lt never see again the wave which first
Flow'd by thee; water never the same;
It passes day by day, although the name
Of water and of river doth persist.
So changes man, and will not be tomorrow
That which he is today, he cannot borrow
That strenght which time doth alter and consume:
(後略)
【蛇足】編集者 H.J.ロペは「動く水が私たちをバロックの中心へと連れて行く」と評した。川を流れる水は、川のことを考えたりしない。
