Thalia Rediviva The Pass-times and Diversions of a Countrey-muse, In Choice Poems on several Occasions. With Some Learned Remains of the Eminent Eugenius Philalethes. Never made Publick till now [by Henry Vaughan] |
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In Zodiacum Marcelli Palingenii.
It is perform'd! and thy great Name doth runThrough ev'ry Sign an everlasting Sun.
Not Planet-like, but fix'd; and we can see
Thy Genius stand still in his Apogie.
For how canst thou an Aux eternal miss,
Where ev'ry House thine Exaltation is?
Here's no Ecclyptic threatens thee with night,
Although the wiser, few take in thy light.
They are not at that glorious pitch, to be
In a Conjunction with Divinitie.
Could we partake some oblique Ray of thine,
Salute thee in a Sextile, or a Trine,
It were enough; but thou art flown so high,
The Telescope is turn'd a Common Eye.
Had the grave Chaldee liv'd thy Book to see,
He had known no Astrologie, but thee;
Nay more, (for I believ't,) thou shouldst have been
Tutor to all his Planets, and to him.
Thus whosoever reads thee, his charm'd sense
Proves captive to thy Zodiac's influence.
Were it not foul to erre so, I should look
Here for the Rabbins universal Book:
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When first they doted on that mystery.
Each line's a via lactea, where we may
See thy fair steps, and tread that happy way
Thy Genius lead thee in. Still I will be
Lodg'd in some Sign, some Face and some Degree
Of thy bright Zodiac, Thus I'le teach my Sense
To move by that, and thee th' Intelligence.
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