Quote#Friendship
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life
Quote byRichard Crashaw · 1612–1649
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Steps to the Temple, To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 516..
English (original)
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.
— Richard Crashaw
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