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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 the Beams of the Sun.

Those Splendent Beams wch forth the Sun doth spread,
Are loose sharp Atomes ranged long like thread;
If streaming they on porous Bodies fall,
They peirce into, which touch we Heat do call.