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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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Of Atomes that make Flame.

Those Atomes wch are Long, sharp at each end,

These Atomes are half Aiery Atomes, and half Fiery.


Stream forth like Air, in Flame, wch Light doth send;
For Flame doth shew as if it fluid were,
Which shews part of that Figure is like Air:
Thus Flame is joyn'd, two Figures into one;
But Fire without a Flame is Sharp alone.