George Withers' Emblemes

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The Moone, which is decreafing now,
Whenfhee rcturncs,^// fuller, grow.
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Never, yet, did murmuriogly complaine,
Although thofc Meones have long been in the Woi/u,
Which on their Silver Shields, my Elders wore,
In Battels, and in Triumphs, heretofore.
Nor any mention have I ever made,
Of fuch Eclipfesyzs thofe Crefcents had
Thereby, to move fome Comet, to reflect
His fading, light, ot daignehis good.afpeft.
For, vv hen I tell the World, how ill I fare,
I
tell her too, how little I doe care,
For her dights : yea, and I tell it not,
That, hetpe, or pitie, might from her be gor 5
But, rather, that her Favourites may fee,
I know my Warnings, yet, can pleafed bee.
My Light, is from the Planet of the Sume-
And, though the courfe, which I obliquely runne,
Oft brings my outward Fcrtunts to ihcWaiite,
My Light fhall, one day, bee renew'd againe.
Yea, though to fome, I quite may feeme to lofc
My Light j becaufc, ray follies interpofe
Their (liadowes to eclipfe it: yet, I know,
My Crefcents ,\vill increafe, 2nd fuller, grow.
AiToonc as in the Flejh, I beeing had,
I mooved on in Cour/is retrograde,
And, thereby loft my Splendor .-
but, I feclc
Soft motion?, from thar great EttrnaflWheele,
Which mooveth all things, fweetly mooving mee,
To gainc the Place, in which I ought to bee:
And, when to Him, I backe returtte, from whom
At firft I came, I fliall at Full become.
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