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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Of the Sound and Eccho.
Eccho seems nothing, yet a while it Lives,And like a wanton Ladmock-answers gives,
Not like the Souls, that from the Bodies go,
For Eccho's Body is of Air, we know;
But strange it is, that Sounds so strong and clear,
Resisting Bodies have, and not appear;
Yet Air, which Subtile is, encounter may;
Thus Words as Sounds may with Self-Eccho play.
But they grow weary soon, hold not out long,
Seem out of Breath, and faulter with the Tongue.
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