Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FCGC HIHI GGJG KLKL MNMN OPQR SCSC CTCT| When I survey the bright | A |
| Celestial sphere | B |
| So rich with jewels hung that Night | A |
| Doth like an Ethiop bride appear | B |
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| My soul her wings doth spread | C |
| And heavenward flies | D |
| Th' Almighty's mysteries to read | C |
| In the large volumes of the skies | D |
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| For the bright firmament | C |
| Shoots forth no flame | E |
| So silent but is eloquent | C |
| In speaking the Creator's name | E |
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| No unregarded star | F |
| Contracts its light | C |
| Into so small a character | G |
| Removed far from our human sight | C |
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| But if we steadfast look | H |
| We shall discern | I |
| In it as in some holy book | H |
| How man may heavenly knowledge learn | I |
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| It tells the conqueror | G |
| That far stretch'd power | G |
| Which his proud dangers traffic for | J |
| Is but the triumph of an hour | G |
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| That from the farthest North | K |
| Some nation may | L |
| Yet undiscover'd issue forth | K |
| And o'er his new got conquest sway | L |
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| Some nation yet shut in | M |
| With hills of ice | N |
| May be let out to scourge his sin | M |
| Till they shall equal him in vice | N |
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| And then they likewise shall | O |
| Their ruin have | P |
| For as yourselves your empires fall | Q |
| And every kingdom hath a grave | R |
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| Thus those celestial fires | S |
| Though seeming mute | C |
| The fallacy of our desires | S |
| And all the pride of life confute | C |
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| For they have watch'd since first | C |
| The World had birth | T |
| And found sin in itself accurst | C |
| And nothing permanent on Earth | T |
William Habington
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