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 :Thus life doth vanish as this how is gone,
 * Said I. That sacred nymph forthwith reply'd,
 * Vain showes may vanish that have gaily shone
 * To feeble sense; but if the truth be tri'd,
 * Life cannot perish, or to nothing slide:
 * It is not life that falleth under sight,
 * None but vain flitting qualities are ey'd
 * By wondring ignorance. The vitall spright

As surely doth remain as the Sun's lasting light.


 * This bow, whose breaking struck thy troubled heart,
 * Of causelesse grief, I hope, shall thee secure,
 * When I have well explain'd with skilfull art
 * By its resemblance what things must indure,
 * What things decay and cannot standen sure.
 * The higher causes of that colour'd ark,
 * What ere becomes of it, do sit secure.
 * That so (the body falling) life's fair spark

Is safe, I'll clearly show if you but list to mark.

He has found it necessary to annex a glossary to the poem, but these uncouth words which require a glossary are not the worst. The reader who does not understand Greek and Hebrew will naturally look there for the meaning or such words as acronychall, Adamah, Anantœsthesie, &c.