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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 Sun's Weakness.

The Sun doth not to the Earth's Centre go,
He cannot shoot his Beams so deep and low;
For a thick Wall will make his Arrows weak,
So that his Heat must needs against it break;

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And Earth hath Arms so thick, to keep out all
His fiery Darts, which He on Her lets fall.