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Dal Cielo al Cielo.

Sundry opinions amongst learned men
Have raised beene about the meanes and way,
And 'bout the certaine time, and season when
That soule of man, which never can decay,

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Into the bodie doth it selfe convey:
Whether't beginning with the body take,
Or long before: if so, where it doth stay:
Which strife the soule it selfe thus plaine doth make.
From Heaven I, not from mans seed proceed,
For with the bodie if it rise it dies.