Thalia Rediviva The Pass-times and Diversions of a Countrey-muse, In Choice Poems on several Occasions. With Some Learned Remains of the Eminent Eugenius Philalethes. Never made Publick till now [by Henry Vaughan] |
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Metrum 2. Lib. 3.
What fix'd Affections, and lov'd Laws
(which are the hid, magnetic Cause;
Wise Nature governs with, and by
What fast, inviolable tye
The whole Creation to her ends
For ever provident she bends:
All this I purpose to rehearse
In the sweet Airs of solemn Verse.
(which are the hid, magnetic Cause;
Wise Nature governs with, and by
What fast, inviolable tye
The whole Creation to her ends
For ever provident she bends:
All this I purpose to rehearse
In the sweet Airs of solemn Verse.
Although the Lybian Lyons should
Be bound with chains of purest Gold,
And duely fed, were taught to know
Their keepers voice, and fear his blow:
Yet, if they chance to taste of bloud,
Their rage which slept, stirr'd by that food
In furious roarings will awake,
And fiercely for their freedom make.
No chains, nor bars their fury brooks,
But with inrag'd and bloody looks
They will break through, and dull'd with fear
Their keeper all to pieces tear.
Be bound with chains of purest Gold,
And duely fed, were taught to know
Their keepers voice, and fear his blow:
Yet, if they chance to taste of bloud,
Their rage which slept, stirr'd by that food
In furious roarings will awake,
And fiercely for their freedom make.
No chains, nor bars their fury brooks,
But with inrag'd and bloody looks
They will break through, and dull'd with fear
Their keeper all to pieces tear.
The Bird, which on the Woods tall boughs
Sings sweetly, if you Cage or house,
And out of kindest care should think
To give her honey with her drink,
And get her store of pleasant meat,
Ev'n such as she delights to Eat:
Yet, if from her close prison she
The shady-groves doth chance to see,
Straitway she loaths her pleasant food
And with sad looks longs for the Wood.
The wood, the wood alone she loves!
And towards it she looks and moves:
And in sweet notes (though distant from,)
Sings to her first and happy home!
Sings sweetly, if you Cage or house,
And out of kindest care should think
To give her honey with her drink,
And get her store of pleasant meat,
Ev'n such as she delights to Eat:
Yet, if from her close prison she
The shady-groves doth chance to see,
Straitway she loaths her pleasant food
And with sad looks longs for the Wood.
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And towards it she looks and moves:
And in sweet notes (though distant from,)
Sings to her first and happy home!
That Plant, which of it self doth grow
Upwards, if forc'd, will downwards bow;
But give it freedom, and it will
Get up, and grow erectly still.
Upwards, if forc'd, will downwards bow;
But give it freedom, and it will
Get up, and grow erectly still.
The Sun, which by his prone descent
Seems westward in the Evening bent,
Doth nightly by an unseen way
Haste to the East, and bring up day.
Seems westward in the Evening bent,
Doth nightly by an unseen way
Haste to the East, and bring up day.
Thus all things long for their first State,
And gladly to't return, though late.
Nor is there here to any thing
A Course allow'd, but in a Ring;
Which, where it first began, must end:
And to that Point directly tend.
And gladly to't return, though late.
Nor is there here to any thing
A Course allow'd, but in a Ring;
Which, where it first began, must end:
And to that Point directly tend.
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