Tixall Poetry/A Broken Perspective Glass
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A Broken Perspective Glass.
Syracusan's Ingenire,
Strangely in a christall sphere
All the motions comprizd
Of the starres epitomizd:
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.
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.