Song 28. Ask the Empress of the night
I
Ask the Empress of the night,
How that hand which guides her sphere,
Constant in unconstant light,
Taught the waves her yoke to bear:
And did thus by loving force
Curb or tame the rude Seas course.
II
Ask the female Palm how she
First did wooe her Husbands love;
And the Magnetick, ask how she
Doth the obsequious Iron move:
Waters, Plants, and Stones know this,
That they love, not what Love is.
III
Be not thou less kind then those,
Or from Love exempt alone;
Let us twine like amorous Trees,
And like Rivers melt in one;
Or if thou more cruel prove,
Learn of Steel and Stone to love.