{"id":889,"date":"2017-06-12T00:51:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T00:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=889"},"modified":"2019-08-06T01:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T01:37:38","slug":"the-traffic-betwixt-the-sun-and-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"The Traffic betwixt the Sun and the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\n

\u2019<\/span>Tis thought an unctuous matter comes from<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the sun
\n<\/span>In streaming<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> beams, which Earth doth feed upon,
\n<\/span>And that the Earth by them, when they ascend,<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Unto the sun a nourishment doth send.<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And so each<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> beam the sun doth make a chain, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> 5
\n<\/span>Which brings down food and draws food<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> back again.
\n<\/span>Or we may well those beams to ships compare,<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Where each is laden with the richest ware.<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Each ship<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> is fraught with heat; through air it sails<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And brings this heat to th\u2019Earth, which never fails<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 10
\n<\/span>By traffic\u2019s laws equal returns to make,<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And sends instead of heat moist vapor back.<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Great danger is, if ships be overfraught,<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>For many times they sink with their own weight:<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And<\/span>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span> those gilt ships such fate<\/span>18<\/sup><\/a><\/span> do<\/span>19<\/sup><\/a><\/span> often find, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 15
\n<\/span>They sink with too much weight or split with wind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2019Tis thought an unctuous matter comes from the sun In streaming beams, which Earth doth feed upon, And that the Earth by them, when they ascend, Unto the sun a nourishment doth send. And so each beam the sun doth make a chain, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 … Continue reading The Traffic betwixt the Sun and the Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}