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All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet

Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted

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[The Great all-seeing burning eye of day]
  
  
  
  
  
  
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[The Great all-seeing burning eye of day]

The thirteenth of September, the Sunne enters into Libra, Or the Ballance.

Libra. September.
The Great all-seeing burning eye of day,
In Libraes Ballance restlesse comes to rest,
Where equally his way he seemes to wey:
And day and night with equall houres are drest:
By these iust scales, true iustice is exprest,
Which doth to times and places render right,
Where wealth insults not, nor the poore opprest,
But all's eu'n poyzed, like the day and night.
And now this lampe of light doth here alight,
Making this Signe, his Equinoctiall Inne,
Whilst fruitfull trees are ouer-laden quite:
(Too great a gracious guerdon for mans sinne)
And as in March he 'gan to doe vs grace,
So to th' Antipodes he now 'gins shew his face.