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Poems, and phancies

written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected

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A Fire is in the Centre of the Earth.

As Heat about the Heart always keeps nigh,
So doth a Fire near the Earth's Centre lye;
And as that Heat is through the Body round
Dispersed, but when gone, no Life is found;
So this Heat makes all things to bud and bear,
Although the Sun's hot Beams do ne're come there;
Yet doth the Sun nourish all things without,
Though Fire within the Earth gives Life no doubt:
Thus Heat within begets with Child the Earth,
And Heat without is Midwife to her Birth.