Tixall Poetry/A Broken Perspective Glass

by unknown author

A Broken Perspective Glass.

 

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 Syracusan's Ingenire,
 Strangely in a christall sphere
 All the motions comprizd
 Of the starres epitomizd:

 Til Jove envieng the wonder,
 Crakt it with a clap of thunder.
 But when Gallileus came,
 This new optik glasse to frame,
 He did every bashfull starre
 Shew as naked as they are;
 And th' enlarged signes could spell,
 In a volume legible.
Had ther owne christalin got such a crak,
Astronomy had felt a lesser wrack.

 

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