Lychnocausia Sive Moralia Facum Emblemata: Lights Morall Emblems: Authore Roberto Farlaeo Scoto-Britanno [i.e. by Robert Farley] |
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To the Author.
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To the Author.
Heroes
bright lampe, which she on Sestus strand,
Set up to be a marke, by which might land
Her lov'd Leander, when he crost the Sea
Of Hellespont; long since was out, and we
Onely enjoy its fame, the light is gone,
And tow'r is buried in oblivion.
Th' Ægyptian Pharos, which was fam'd to be
The worlds seav'nth wonder, in obscurity
Lyes ruin'd, and that multiplicit light,
Once to the Marriners a Sunne by night,
Is now extinct; for tis decreed by fate,
What Art doth reare, that Time shall ruinate:
Nay holy Writ assures, at the last day
The starres shall fall from heaven, the sunne decay,
The Moone be turnd to blood, those which God made
First most resplendent lights, at last shall fade.
Set up to be a marke, by which might land
Her lov'd Leander, when he crost the Sea
Of Hellespont; long since was out, and we
Onely enjoy its fame, the light is gone,
And tow'r is buried in oblivion.
Th' Ægyptian Pharos, which was fam'd to be
The worlds seav'nth wonder, in obscurity
Lyes ruin'd, and that multiplicit light,
Once to the Marriners a Sunne by night,
Is now extinct; for tis decreed by fate,
What Art doth reare, that Time shall ruinate:
Nay holy Writ assures, at the last day
The starres shall fall from heaven, the sunne decay,
The Moone be turnd to blood, those which God made
First most resplendent lights, at last shall fade.
But thy Lights most transcendent, can hand
Of Time or Fate (which all things else hath scand,)
Put to these Lights an end, for these shall be
Bright shining Tapers to Eternity.
Of Time or Fate (which all things else hath scand,)
Put to these Lights an end, for these shall be
Bright shining Tapers to Eternity.
Christopher Drayton.
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