XXXIV.

Now drinkes he up seas, and he eates up flocks,

He justles Ilands, and he shakes firme rockes.

Now in a roomefull house this Soule doth float,

And like a Prince she sends her faculties

To all her limbes, distant as Provinces. 335

The Sunne hath twenty times both crab and goate

Parched, since first lanch'd forth this living boate;

'Tis greatest now, and to destruction

Nearest; There's no pause at perfection;

Greatnesse a period hath, but hath no station. 340

The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts · 第 225 / 371 题