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Sonnet. XLVI.

[Oh Sunne and Moone the daies and Euenings lights]

Oh Sunne and Moone the daies and Euenings lights,
With powerfull Starres bright subiects of the same,
Archangels, Angels praise his holy name:
The glorious Cherubin which fierie fights
With his proud foes: the Seraphes, holy sprights,
Who with sweete himnes record his endlesse fame,
The dreadfull thunder with his angrie flame,
Which (when hee list) all men, and beastes affrights:
Raine, Hayle, Snow, tempest, clouds, and bitter winde,
Darknesse, and light, Earthquakes, and foggie mist,
With Flies and fethered foules of seuerall kinde,
My soule and spirite in his praise assist:
Who (past all humaine wonder) did create
Vs all, that all his praise might propagate.