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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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What Atomes the Sun is made of.

The Sun is of the sharpest Atomes made,
Close knit together, and exactly laid;
Its Fabrick is just like a Wheel made round,
And in the midst of all the Planets found;
Which Planets as they move about the Sun,
Their Motion makes the loose sharp Atomes run.