Tixall Poetry/A Broken Perspective Glass
A Broken Perspective Glass.
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.