 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
By this the curld pate VVaggoner of heauen
Had finish'd his diurnall course, and driuen
His parting Steeds adowne the Westerne hill,
When siluer Cynthia, rising to fulfill
Her nightly course, lets fall an euening teare,
To see her brother leaue the Hemisphere,
Which, by the ayre dispers'd, is early found
(And call'd a pearlly dew) vpon the ground:
Still was the night, no language did molest
The waking ear; All mortals were at rest;
No breath of wind had power to prouoke
The Aspine leafe, or quell the aspiring smoake;
Sweet was the ayre, and cleare; no Starre was hid;
No enuious cloud was stirring, to forbid
The wilde Astronomer, to gaze, and looke
Into the secrets of his spangled booke;
Whilst round about, in each resounding groue,
(As if the Choristers of night had stroue
T'excell the warbling Philomele compares.
And vie, by turnes her Polyphonian ayres.
Had finish'd his diurnall course, and driuen
His parting Steeds adowne the Westerne hill,
When siluer Cynthia, rising to fulfill
Her nightly course, lets fall an euening teare,
To see her brother leaue the Hemisphere,
Which, by the ayre dispers'd, is early found
(And call'd a pearlly dew) vpon the ground:
Still was the night, no language did molest
The waking ear; All mortals were at rest;
No breath of wind had power to prouoke
The Aspine leafe, or quell the aspiring smoake;
Sweet was the ayre, and cleare; no Starre was hid;
No enuious cloud was stirring, to forbid
The wilde Astronomer, to gaze, and looke
Into the secrets of his spangled booke;
Whilst round about, in each resounding groue,
(As if the Choristers of night had stroue
T'excell the warbling Philomele compares.
And vie, by turnes her Polyphonian ayres.
| Argalvs and Parthenia | |