Du Bartas, His Divine Weeks and Works (excerpt)

Joshua Sylvester 1563 (England) – 1618



...
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    But ev'n as many (or more) quarrels cumber
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   Th' old heathen schools about the heavens' number.
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   One holds but one; making the world's eyes shine
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   Through the thin-thickness of that chrystal line,
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   (As through the ocean's clear and liquid flood
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   The slippery fishes up and down do scud).
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   Another, judging certain by his eye,
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   And, seeing sev'n bright lamps mov'd diversely,
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   Turn this and that way: and, on th' other side,
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   That all the rest of the heav'ns' twinkling pride
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   Keep all one course; ingeniously, he varies
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   The heav'ns' rich building into eight round stories.
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   Others, amid the starriest orb, perceiving
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   A triple cadence, and withal conceiving
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   That but one natural course one body goes,
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   Count nine, some ten; not numb'ring yet (with those)
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   Th' empyreal palace, where th' eternal treasures
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   Of nectar flow, where everlasting pleasures
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   Are heaped-up, where an immortal May
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   In blissful beauties flourisheth for ay,
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   Where life still lives, where God his sises holds
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   Environ'd round with seraphins and souls
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   Bought with his precious blood, whose glorious flight
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   Erst mounted earth above the heavens bright.
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   Nor shall my faint and humble Muse presume
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   So high a song and subject to assume.
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THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK (excerpts)
Rep. Poetry:  2RP.1.253.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme A bA bA cA cA dA dA xA xA eA eA fA fA gA gA hA hA iA iA jA jA xA xA kA kA lA l xx
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,446
Words 236
Stanzas 28
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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