Social Commentaries
On the motion of the Starres
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Artists affirme that from the burning Line
Some Starres of Aries North-ward now decline,
And the slow-pac'd Cynosure appeares
Nearer the fixt Pole, than in former yeares:
No marvell then blind Mortals walke astray,
When Heav'ns cleare eies have lost their wonted way.
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