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Beyond Chaldæa's science, or the lore
Of flame-adoring Zoroastrian.
Spring is distracted with untimely heats
And Summer knows unseasonable blight,
Whilst Earth herself, our nursing mother old
Grown weary of her swarming progeny
Quakes town and temple in one ruin down,
As Ocean quits his wonted bed, to sweep
Enormous death on Asia's crowded coast.
Either the Gods are weary of the world
Or angry with their children.
Libanius:
Pray you, leave
To Jew and Galilean jealous Gods.
No angry God may ever work man ill,
Anger is contrary to the mind Divine,
But man's misunderstanding of the Gods
Himself may injure. Souls in fear of God
Are souls from Him by their own default estrang'd,
