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 a Burning Coal.
The cause, a Coal doth set an House on Fire,Is, Atomes sharp are in that Coal entire,
Which being arm'd with Points quite thorow go,
And those flat Atomes with their Forms undo;
And Atomes sharp, whose Form is made for flight,
If Loose, do run to help the rest in fight:
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Seeing their Friends ingag'd, to rescue Ride;
But Atomes flat, where Motion is but slow,
They cannot Fight, but strait to Ashes go.
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