Groans too deep for words

(Lord’s day). To church in the morning, and then home and dined with my wife, and so both of us to church again, where we had an Oxford man give us a most impertinent sermon upon “Cast your bread upon the waters,” &c. So home to read, supper, and to prayers, and then to bed.

to church with a sob
for a most impertinent sermon

cast upon the water
a prayer to be


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 February 1661/62.

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