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 Attraction of the Earth.
Why Earth draws like the Sun, if you intendTo know the cause, Earth doth sharp Atomes send
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When from a Swarm, dispers'd apart each flies;
Often with duller Forms they meet, and then
Having stuck in their Points go back agen:
For like a Bee that's Loaden on each thigh,
Hath a great weight, and cannot nimbly fly;
So when their Points are Loaden, then they grow
Heavy, can peirce no more, but backward go;
And, as their Hives, to Earth return again;
Thus by their Travel they the Earth maintain.
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