Yet not to Eart Luminaries

    Officious, but to tant.

    And for t, let it speak [ 100 ]

    t

    So spacious, and retc so farr;

    t Man may know  in his own;

    An Edifice too large for o fill,

    Lodgd in a small partition, and t [ 105 ]

    Ordaind for uses to  known.

    tness of ttribute,

    to ence,

    t to corporeal substances could adde

    Speed almost Spiritual; mee t not slow, [ 110 ]

    out from heavn

    here God resides, and ere mid-day arrivd

    In Eden, distance inexpressible

    By Numbers t  this I urge,

    Admitting Motion in to shew [ 115 ]

    Invalid t  it movd;

    Not t I so affirm, t seem

    to t th.

    God to remove his wayes from human sense,

    Placd  eart, [ 120 ]

    If it presume, migoo high,

    And no advantage gaine.  if the Sun

    Be Centre to tarrs

    By tractive vertue and their own

    Incited, dance about him various rounds? [ 125 ]

    then hid,

    Progressive, retrograde, or standing still,

    In six t, and o these

    t Eartedfast though she seem,

    Insensibly t Motions move? [ 130 ]

    o several Sp ascribe,

    Movd contrarie  obliquities,

    Or save t s

    Nocturnal and Diurnal rhomb supposd,

    Invisible else above all Starrs, the heele [ 135 ]

    Of Day and Nig thy beleefe,

    If Eartrious of ch Day

    travelling East, and  averse

    From t Nig

    Still luminous by  if t light [ 140 ]

    Sent from ranspicuous aire,

    to terrestrial Moon be as a Starr

    Enlig

    there,

    Fields and Inants: s t [ 145 ]

    As Clouds, and Clouds may rain, and Rain produce

    Fruits in nd Soile, for some to eate

    Allotted ther Suns perhaps

    ittendant Moons t descrie

    Communicating Male and Femal Light, [ 150 ]

    Sexes animate the orld,

    Stord in eac live.

    For suc room in Nature unpossest

    By living Soule, desert and desolate,

    Onely to s scarce to contribute [ 155 ]

    Eac, conveyd so farr

    Doo table, wurnes

    Ligo to dispute.