| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2849 |
| AUTHOR: | Richard Crashaw (1612?1649) |
| QUOTATION: | The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Epigram. |
| | Note 1. Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit (The modest Nymph saw the god, and blushed).Epigrammationa Sacra. Aquæ in vinum versæ, p. 299. [back] |
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