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 Omnipotence,
That to corporeal substances could adde
Speed almost Spiritual; mee thou thinkst not slow, [ 110 ]
Who sihe M hour set out from Heavn
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 dwelling 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 her 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 Lahere,
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.