IN THE MOON.
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For, by this admirable Phænomenon,
We now have gotten Ground upon the Moon;
And gain'd a Pass t'engage, and hold Dispute
190 With all the other Planets, that stand out;
And carry on this brave and virtuous War
Home to the Door of th' obstinatest Star;
And plant th' Artillery of our Optick Tubes
Against the proudest of their Magnitudes;
195 To stretch our future Victories beyond
The uttermost of Planetary Ground;
And plant our warlike Engines, and our Ensigns
Upon the fix'd Stars spacious Dimensions,
To prove, if they are other Suns, or not,
200 As some Philosophers have wisely thought,
Or only Windows in the Empyreum,
Through which those bright Effluvias use to come;
Which Archimede, so many Years ago,
Durst never venture, but to wish to know.
205 Nor is this all, that we have now atchiev'd,
But greater Things!—Henceforth to be believ'd,
We now have gotten Ground upon the Moon;
And gain'd a Pass t'engage, and hold Dispute
190 With all the other Planets, that stand out;
And carry on this brave and virtuous War
Home to the Door of th' obstinatest Star;
And plant th' Artillery of our Optick Tubes
Against the proudest of their Magnitudes;
195 To stretch our future Victories beyond
The uttermost of Planetary Ground;
And plant our warlike Engines, and our Ensigns
Upon the fix'd Stars spacious Dimensions,
To prove, if they are other Suns, or not,
200 As some Philosophers have wisely thought,
Or only Windows in the Empyreum,
Through which those bright Effluvias use to come;
Which Archimede, so many Years ago,
Durst never venture, but to wish to know.
205 Nor is this all, that we have now atchiev'd,
But greater Things!—Henceforth to be believ'd,
they made a sort of Parenthesis, and the two following Lines are also omitted:
Like Flames of Fires, as others guess,
That shine i' th' Mouths of Furnaces.
That shine i' th' Mouths of Furnaces.
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