{"id":1617,"date":"2019-04-29T23:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2019-05-04T02:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T02:18:47","slug":"natures-exercise-and-pastime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Nature\u2019s Exercise and Pastime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Nature doth by<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> variations live,<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nFor she to none a constant course doth give.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nWe find in change she swiftly runs about,
\nTo keep her health and get<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> long life (no doubt).
\nAnd we are only food for Nature fine,<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 5
\nOur flesh her meat, our blood is her strong wine.<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nThe trees and herbs, fruits, roots, and flowers sweet,
\nAre but her salads, or such cooling meat.
\nThe sea\u2019s her bath to wash and cleanse her in
\nWhen weary she hath on a<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> journey been.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10
\nThe sun\u2019s her fire, which<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> serves her many ways,
\nHis lights<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> her looking-glass, and beauties<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> praise.
\nThe winds,<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> her horses, pace as she doth<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> please,
\nThe clouds her chariot where she sits with<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span> ease.
\nThe Earth\u2019s her ball, which she oft<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> trundles round;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15
\nShe in this<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span> exercise much good hath found.
\nNight is her bed, her rest therein to take;
\nSilence doth watch<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span> lest noise might her awake.
\nThe spheres her music, and the Milky Way
\nIs where she dances whilst those spheres do play.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great Nature doth by variations live, For she to none a constant course doth give. We find in change she swiftly runs about, To keep her health and get long life (no doubt). And we are only food for Nature fine,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 5 Our flesh her meat, our blood is her strong wine. The trees … Continue reading Nature\u2019s Exercise and Pastime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancies","category-part3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}