an Heroick Poem.
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20.
As if 'twere great and stately to stand still
Whilst other Orbs dance on; or else think all
Those vast bright Globes (to shew God's needless skill)
Were made but to attend our little Ball.
As if 'twere great and stately to stand still
Whilst other Orbs dance on; or else think all
Those vast bright Globes (to shew God's needless skill)
Were made but to attend our little Ball.
21.
Now near a sever'd Building they discern'd
(Which seem'd, as in a pleasant shade, retir'd)
A Throng, by whose glad diligence they learn'd,
They came frome Toils which their own choice desir'd.
Now near a sever'd Building they discern'd
(Which seem'd, as in a pleasant shade, retir'd)
A Throng, by whose glad diligence they learn'd,
They came frome Toils which their own choice desir'd.
22.
This they approch, and as they enter it
Their Eyes were stay'd, by reading ore the Gate,
Great Natures Office, in large letters writ;
And next, they mark'd who there in office sate.
This they approch, and as they enter it
Their Eyes were stay'd, by reading ore the Gate,
Great Natures Office, in large letters writ;
And next, they mark'd who there in office sate.
23.
Old busie Men, yet much for wisdom fam'd;
Hastie to know, though not by haste beguild;
These fitly, Natures Registers were nam'd;
The Throng were their Intelligencers styl'd:
Old busie Men, yet much for wisdom fam'd;
Hastie to know, though not by haste beguild;
These fitly, Natures Registers were nam'd;
The Throng were their Intelligencers styl'd:
24.
Who stop by snares, and by their chace oretake
All hidden Beasts the closser Forrest yields;
All that by secret sence their rescue make,
Or trust their force, or swiftness in the Fields.
Who stop by snares, and by their chace oretake
All hidden Beasts the closser Forrest yields;
All that by secret sence their rescue make,
Or trust their force, or swiftness in the Fields.
25.
And of this Throng, some their imployment have
In fleeting Rivers, some fixed Lakes beset;
Where Nature's self, by shifts, can nothing save
From trifling Angles, or the swall'wing Net.
And of this Throng, some their imployment have
In fleeting Rivers, some fixed Lakes beset;
Where Nature's self, by shifts, can nothing save
From trifling Angles, or the swall'wing Net.
26.
Some, in the spacious Ayr, their Prey oretake,
Cos'ning, with hunger, Faulcons of their wings;
Whilst all their patient observations make,
Which each to Natures Office duely brings.
Some, in the spacious Ayr, their Prey oretake,
Cos'ning, with hunger, Faulcons of their wings;
Whilst all their patient observations make,
Which each to Natures Office duely brings.
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