Social Commentaries
A consort of Starres
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book II
Social Commentaries
Each Shepheard knows that of those lights above
Some with a swift course, others slowly move;
And that the fixt Starres in a plaine song-way
Goe on, but Planets (that below them stray)
Seeme to runne descant still and modulate,
Yet are their motions all proportionate,
And regular: How could this wonder be,
But that the God of peace loves Harmony.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A consort of Starres.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/336/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “A consort of Starres.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/336/.
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