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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Wind is made in the Air, not in the Earth.
How can we think Winds come from th'Earth below,When from the Sky they down upon us blow?
If they came from the Earth, they must ascend,
And back again their strength against it bend;
They cannot freely blow, lest Earth were made
Like to a Bowling-green, and Level laid;
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Which stop their ways and make them soon retreat:
Then sure it is, the Sun draws Vapour out,
And makes it thin, then blows it all about;
By Heat condens'd it turneth into Rain,
And by Its Weight falls to the Earth again.
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