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 The golden globe incontinent Sets up his shining head, And o'er the earth and firmament Displays his beams abread.

For joy the birds with boulden throats Against his visage sheen Take up their kindly musick notes In woods and gardens green.

The dew upon the tender crops, Like pearlis white and round, Or like to melted silver drops, Refreshis all the ground.

The misty reek, the clouds of rain, From tops of mountains skails, Clear are the highest hills and plain, The vapours take the vales.

The ample heaven of fabrick sure In cleanness does surpass The crystal and the silver pure, Or clearest polisht glass.

The time so tranquil is and still That nowhere shall ye find, Save on a high and barren hill, An air of peeping wind.

All trees and simples, great and small, That balmy leaf do bear, Than they were painted on a wall No more they move or steir.

boulden] swollen. sheen] bright. skails] clears. simples] herbs.