XXXIV.

Now drinks he up seas, and he eats up flocks;

He jostles islands, and he shakes firm rocks:

Now in a roomful house this Soul doth float,

And, like a prince, she sends her faculties

To all her limbs, distant as provinces.

The sun hath twenty times both Crab and Goat

Parched, since first launched forth this living boat:

'Tis greatest now, and to destruction

Nearest; there's no pause at perfection;

Greatness a period hath, but hath no station.

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