StoryTitle("caps", "Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I survey the bright ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Celestial sphere; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So rich with jewels hung, that Night ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My soul her wings doth spread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And heavenward flies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Th' Almighty's mysteries to read ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the large volumes of the skies. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the bright firmament ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Shoots forth no flame", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So silent, but is eloquent ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In speaking the Creator's name. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No unregarded star ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Contracts its light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into so small a character,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Removed far from our human sight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if we steadfast look ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "We shall discern ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In it, as in some holy book, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How man may heavenly knowledge learn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It tells the conqueror ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That far-stretch'd power, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which his proud dangers traffic for, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is but the triumph of an hour: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That from the farthest North,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Some nation may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet undiscover'd, issue forth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And o'er his new-got conquest sway: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some nation yet shut in ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With hills of ice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May be let out to scourge his sin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till they shall equal him in vice. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then they likewise shall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Their ruin have; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For as yourselves your empires fall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every kingdom hath a grave. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus those celestial fires, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Though seeming mute, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fallacy of our desires ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all the pride of life confute:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For they have watch'd since first ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The World had birth: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And found sin in itself accurst, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And nothing permanent on Earth.", "") ?>
Poet("William Habington", "1605-1654") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>