Quotes from La Semaine; ou, Création du monde — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
d. 1590 France
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Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.
To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?
Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant.
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion.
Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
'T is what you will,—or will be what you would.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
A good turn at need,
At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
Which serves for cynosure
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.
From north to south, from east to west.
Hot and cold, and moist and dry.
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