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An Essay upon Buchanan's First Book de Sphæra. Never perfected.
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An Essay upon Buchanan's First Book de Sphæra. Never perfected.
How various are the World's great parts I sing,
And by what League the jarring Seeds of things
Agree in one, the Causes Motion breed
Why Darkness Light, and Coldness Heat succeed,
And why the Suns, and the Moons horned Light
Suffer Eclipses of o're-shading Night.
And by what League the jarring Seeds of things
Agree in one, the Causes Motion breed
Why Darkness Light, and Coldness Heat succeed,
And why the Suns, and the Moons horned Light
Suffer Eclipses of o're-shading Night.
Thou who the Temples, wall'd with sacred Light.
(Impenetrable to our weaker sight)
Inhabit'st, holy Father of the Skies,
Propitious be to this bold Enterprize,
Whilst to the World we do Thy Acts reveal,
And the immense Work of the Pole unseal;
That people ignorant of Truth, a Mind
(From Sloth, and long-liv'd Error so refin'd)
May lift to Heav'n, and whilst amaz'd, the Ball
They so embraced with a Flaming Wall,
And wheeling times return in certain course,
May own the Mover, and admire his Force,
That props so great a Pile, that with the bit
Of his Eternal Law doth govern it;
And in His secret Council has decreed
It fit for Man's innumerable Need.
(Impenetrable to our weaker sight)
Inhabit'st, holy Father of the Skies,
Propitious be to this bold Enterprize,
Whilst to the World we do Thy Acts reveal,
And the immense Work of the Pole unseal;
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(From Sloth, and long-liv'd Error so refin'd)
May lift to Heav'n, and whilst amaz'd, the Ball
They so embraced with a Flaming Wall,
And wheeling times return in certain course,
May own the Mover, and admire his Force,
That props so great a Pile, that with the bit
Of his Eternal Law doth govern it;
And in His secret Council has decreed
It fit for Man's innumerable Need.
And thou, young Mercury Tymolion,
Thy Father's, and thy Country's hopeful Son,
Go, my Companion, in thy tender Years,
Castalion Woods, and sacred Founts draw near,
Frequent that unknown Peace, and Nymphs soft Choires
Subject to loss; nor avaritious Fires.
Thy Father's, and thy Country's hopeful Son,
Go, my Companion, in thy tender Years,
Castalion Woods, and sacred Founts draw near,
Frequent that unknown Peace, and Nymphs soft Choires
Subject to loss; nor avaritious Fires.
The time will come (when time has giv'n thee Force)
That thou shalt bravely, with thy foaming Horse,
Rush into War, and gloriously advance
In dusty Fields thy Country's threatning Launce:
Till then, thy Syre, either shall Lombards deign
T'orecome, wild Germans, and the Warlike Spain
By Force; or Conduct: Or with Gallick spoil,
Dazling the Sun, deck Calidonia's Soyl.
That thou shalt bravely, with thy foaming Horse,
Rush into War, and gloriously advance
In dusty Fields thy Country's threatning Launce:
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T'orecome, wild Germans, and the Warlike Spain
By Force; or Conduct: Or with Gallick spoil,
Dazling the Sun, deck Calidonia's Soyl.
Cætera desunt.
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