{"id":747,"date":"2017-06-11T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=747"},"modified":"2019-05-05T01:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:47:45","slug":"if-infinite-worlds-there-must-be-infinite-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"If Infinite Worlds, There Must Be Infinite Centers."},"content":{"rendered":"<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\n

If infinites of worlds, they must be placed
\n<\/span>At such a distance, as between lies waste.
\n<\/span>If they were joined close, moving about,
\n<\/span>By jostling they would push each other out.
\n<\/span>And if they swim in air, as fishes do \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a05
\n<\/span>In water, they would meet as they did go.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>But if the air doth every world<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> enclose
\n<\/span>And compass<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> all about, as<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> water flows,
\n<\/span>It keeps<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> them equal in their proper seat,<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>That as they move shall not each other beat.<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 10
\n<\/span>Or if like wheels which turn by water round,<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>So air about these<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> worlds is running found.<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> by that motion they do turn about
\n<\/span>No further than that motion\u2019s strength runs out.<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Like to a bowl which will no<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> further go, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>15
\n<\/span>But runs according as that strength did<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span> throw.
\n<\/span>And thus like<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span> bowls, the worlds do turn and run,
\n<\/span>But still the jack and center is the sun.<\/span>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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