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 Another Month there is each Year, he then

Doth little more than ſix with us remain,

'Thoſe dwelling under th' Equinoctial, they

'Have all the Year long equal Night and Day;

'Thoſe near the Tropicks have them more uneven,

'The more, the more that they are Norward driven:

'But thoſe whoſe Tents to either Pole are near,

'Have but one Night and one Day in a Year,

'Yet all well compaſs'd by due ruled Rite,

'Neither, than other, hath more Dark or Light.'

Thus there's no Nation, Kindred, Tongue nor Speech,

But what ſome time he Light to them doth reach;

Likewiſe the Moon and Stars of Heaven, alſo

Have all their proper Influence below.

Thus unto every Ordinance of Heaven

An Order's by the God of Nature given,

Each doth the Courſe that is aſſign'd them ſteer,

According to each Seaſon of the Year.

This newly lighted Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,

On this fourth Day to ſhine had new begun,

Set out his Race and Circuit for to run.

The Day preceeding, as before was ſaid,

With Graſs and Trees the Earth ſo rich array'd,

When on the Flowers he downward did diſpenſe

His ſhining Rays and warming Influence,

His Beams that ſuch a radiant Luſtre have,

A new Addition to their Splendor gave.