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    Yet not to Earth are those bright Luminaries

    Officious, but to thee Earths habitant.

    And for the Heavns wide Circuit, let it speak [ 100 ]

    The Makers high magnifice, who built

    So spacious, and his Liretcht out so farr;

    That Man may know he dwells not in his own;

    An Edifice toe for him to fill,

    Lodgd in a small partition, and the rest [ 105 ]

    Ordaind for uses to his Lord best known.

    The swiftness of those Circles attribute,

    Though numberless, to his Omnipote<mark></mark>nce,

    That to corporeal substances could adde

    Speed almost Spiritual; mee thou thinkst not slow, [ 110 ]

    Who sihe M hour set out from Heav<dfn></dfn>n

    Where God resides, and ere mid-day arrivd

    In Eden, distanexpressible

    By hat have name. But this I urge,

    Admitting Motion in the Heavns, to shew [ 115 ]

    Invalid that which thee to doubt it movd;

    Not that I so affirm, though so it seem

    To thee who hast thy dw>9９ｌiｂ?</a>elling here oh.

    God to remove his wayes from human sense,

    Placd Heavn from Earth so farr, that earthly sight, [ 120 ]

    If it presume, might erre in things too high,

    And no advantage gaine. What if the Sun

    Be tre to the World, and other Starrs

    By his attractive vertue and their own

    Incited, dance about him various rounds? [ 125 ]

    Thir wandring course now high, now low, then hid,

    Progressive, retrograde, or standing still,

    In six thou seest, and what if sevnth to these

    The Plah, so stedfast though she seem,

    Insensibly three different Motions move? [ 130 ]

    Which else to several Spheres thou must ascribe,

    Movd trarie with thwart obliquities,

    Or save the Sun his labour, and that swift

    Noal and Diurnal rhomb supposd,

    Invisible else above all Starrs, the Wheele [ 135 ]

    Of Day and Night; whieeds not thy beleefe,

    If Earth industrious of he藏书网r self fetch Day

    Travelli, and with her part averse

    From the Suns beam meet Night, her other part

    Still luminous by his ray. What if that light [ 140 ]

    Sent from her through the wide transpicuous aire,

    To the terrestrial Moon be as a Starr

    Enlightning her by Day, as she by Night

    This Earth? reciprocal, if La>.99ｌib?</a>here,

    Fields and Inhabitants: Her spots thou seest [ 145 ]

    As Clouds, and Clouds may rain, and Rain produce

    Fruits in her softnd Soile, for some to eate

    Allotted there; and other Suns perhaps

    With thir attendant Moons thou wilt descrie

    unig Male and Femal Light, [ 150 ]

    Which two great Sexes animate the World,

    Stord in each Orb perhaps with some that live.

    For such vast room in Nature unpossest

    By living Soule, desert and desolate,

    Oo shine, yet scarce to tribute [ 155 ]

    Each Orb a glimps of Light, veyd so farr

    Down to this habitable, which returnes

    Light back to them, is obvious to dispute.

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