Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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Svre, there are Mynes and veinlings (vnder ground)
Whence Silver's fetcht, and wherein Gold is found:
Iron out of Earth, and out of Stone the Brass
Is melted down (into a purer mass).
Beyond the bounds of Darkness Man hath pry'd,
And th'Excellence of vnder-ground descry'd:
The rarest Stones, and richest Minerals,
From deadly Damps and horrid Darks he hales:
And, if som Torrent come there rushing in
(Such as no Foot hath felt, no Eye hath seen)
He can revert it, or divert it, soon,
Without Impeachment to his Work begun.
Whence Silver's fetcht, and wherein Gold is found:
Iron out of Earth, and out of Stone the Brass
Is melted down (into a purer mass).
Beyond the bounds of Darkness Man hath pry'd,
And th'Excellence of vnder-ground descry'd:
The rarest Stones, and richest Minerals,
From deadly Damps and horrid Darks he hales:
And, if som Torrent come there rushing in
(Such as no Foot hath felt, no Eye hath seen)
He can revert it, or divert it, soon,
Without Impeachment to his Work begun.
Earth's surface yeelds him Corn and Fruits, for Food;
Her vnder-folds, some burning Sulphury flood:
Amid the Quars of Stone are Saphires store:
Among the Dust, the precious Golden Ore
(Where never Bird, before did Path descry,
Where never Vultur cast her greedy Eye,
Where savage Whelps had never never traç't;
Nor furious Lion ever by had past):
On Cliffs of Adamant He layes his hands;
Their height and hardness He at will commands;
Slents them with Sledges, crops their clowdy crown:
He, by the roots turns Mountains vp-side down:
To let out Rills, He cleaveth Rocks insunder:
His Eye perceiues all that is precious, vnder:
He binds the Waters, that they shall not weep;
And diues for Riches in the deepest Deep.
Her vnder-folds, some burning Sulphury flood:
Amid the Quars of Stone are Saphires store:
Among the Dust, the precious Golden Ore
(Where never Bird, before did Path descry,
Where never Vultur cast her greedy Eye,
Where savage Whelps had never never traç't;
Nor furious Lion ever by had past):
On Cliffs of Adamant He layes his hands;
Their height and hardness He at will commands;
Slents them with Sledges, crops their clowdy crown:
He, by the roots turns Mountains vp-side down:
To let out Rills, He cleaveth Rocks insunder:
His Eye perceiues all that is precious, vnder:
He binds the Waters, that they shall not weep;
And diues for Riches in the deepest Deep.
All This, and more, hath Man. But where is found
That souerain Wisedom, sacred and profound?
That vnderstanding of the Waies divine,
Of God's supream and secret Discipline?
That souerain Wisedom, sacred and profound?
That vnderstanding of the Waies divine,
Of God's supream and secret Discipline?
Man knowes it not; nor kenns the worth of it:
It is not found in any living Witt.
The Deeps confess, the Sea acknowledgeth;
Tis not in Me; nor with Me; th'other faith.
It is not found in any living Witt.
The Deeps confess, the Sea acknowledgeth;
Tis not in Me; nor with Me; th'other faith.
Nor Gold, nor Silver, nor all Gems that are,
Can purchase it, nor equall it by farre:
No wedge of Ophir, never so refin'd;
No Æthiopian Topaze, Pearle of Inde,
No precious Onyx, neither Saphire pure
(Corall and Crystall passe I, as obscure)
No Carbuncle, no Diamant so rare;
No One, nor All, with Wisedom may compare.
Can purchase it, nor equall it by farre:
No wedge of Ophir, never so refin'd;
No Æthiopian Topaze, Pearle of Inde,
No precious Onyx, neither Saphire pure
(Corall and Crystall passe I, as obscure)
No Carbuncle, no Diamant so rare;
No One, nor All, with Wisedom may compare.
But, Whence is then, and Where is to be found
That sacred Wisedom, secret and profound?
Sith it is hidden from all humane Eyes;
And from the sight of every Foule that flyes.
Death and Destruction say; We of the same
Haue with our eares but onely heard the Fame.
That sacred Wisedom, secret and profound?
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And from the sight of every Foule that flyes.
Death and Destruction say; We of the same
Haue with our eares but onely heard the Fame.
God, God alone, doth vnderstand it Way;
And knowes the place where it abideth aye.
For, He, at once beholdeth all that is
In all the World: All vnder Heav'n he sees,
To poyze the Winds, and portion (at his pleasure)
Vnto the Waters their due weight and measure.
And knowes the place where it abideth aye.
For, He, at once beholdeth all that is
In all the World: All vnder Heav'n he sees,
To poyze the Winds, and portion (at his pleasure)
Vnto the Waters their due weight and measure.
When for the Raine he stablisht a Decree,
And for the Thunder's Lightning Mutinie;
Then did He see it, and fore-see it fit:
He numbred, pondred, and prepared it:
And vnto Man This Maxime did apply;
GOD's Feare is Wisdom, and From Sin to flie.
And for the Thunder's Lightning Mutinie;
Then did He see it, and fore-see it fit:
He numbred, pondred, and prepared it:
And vnto Man This Maxime did apply;
GOD's Feare is Wisdom, and From Sin to flie.
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