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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Motion is the Life of all things.
As Darkness a privation is of Light,That's when the Optick Nerve is stopt from sight;
So Death is even a Cessation in
Those Forms and Bodies, wherein Motions spin;
As Light which cannot shine but in the Eye,
So Life doth only in a Motion lye:
Thus Life is out, when Motion leaves to be,
Like as an Eye that's shut, no Light can see.
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