{"id":931,"date":"2017-06-12T02:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:49:57","slug":"several-worlds-in-several-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Several Worlds in Several Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There may be many worlds like circles round;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In after ages more worlds may be found.<span id='easy-footnote-1-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-1-931' title='In after ages more worlds may be found.] And many more in After-ages found; 1664; And many more in After-ages found: 1668'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we by art of shipping could into<span id='easy-footnote-2-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-2-931' title='by art&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;of shipping&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;could into]&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;into each &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Circle &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;can but slip, 1653'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each circle slip, we might perhaps it know.<span id='easy-footnote-3-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-3-931' title='Each circle&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;slip, we might perhaps it know.] \u00a0By &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Art &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;of &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Navigation &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;in a Ship; 1653'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This world compared to some may be but small: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No doubt but<span id='easy-footnote-4-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-4-931' title='but] for 1664, 1668'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Nature made degrees of all.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If not, Drake ne\u2019er had made so quick a skip<span id='easy-footnote-5-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-5-931' title='If not, Drake ne\u2019er had made so quick a skip] If so, then &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Drake&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; had never gone so quick 1653. The\u00a0\u201cDrake\u201d referred to is Sir Francis Drake, a sixteenth-century explorer who circumnavigated the globe, proving the Earth was round. See also Cavendish\u2019s\u00a0&lt;em&gt;World\u2019s Olio&lt;\/em&gt; (London, 1665), sig. R2v:\u00a0\u201cHow strongly did Europe believe that all the World was discovered, and yet afterwards so much found out, as it seemed another World? and many believi\u2019d that the Earth was flat and not round, but &lt;em&gt;Cavendish, Drake&lt;\/em&gt;, and others, rectified that Error.\u201d'><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the largest circle in<span id='easy-footnote-6-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-6-931' title='in] with 1664, 1668'><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> his<span id='easy-footnote-7-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-7-931' title='his] one 1653'><sup>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> ship.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For<span id='easy-footnote-8-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-8-931' title='For] But 1664, 1668'><sup>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> some may be so big as none can swim,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Had they the life of old Methusalem. \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<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or had they lives to number with each day,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They would want time to compass half the way.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if that Drake had lived in Venus\u2019s<span id='easy-footnote-9-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-9-931' title='Venus\u2019s] &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Venus&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; 1653, 1668'><sup>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> star,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His journey shorter might have<span id='easy-footnote-10-931' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931#easy-footnote-bottom-10-931' title='shorter might have] might have &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;shorter&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; 1664, 1668'><sup>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> been by far.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be many worlds like circles round; In after ages more worlds may be found. If we by art of shipping could into Each circle slip, we might perhaps it know. This world compared to some may be but small: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 5 No doubt but Nature made degrees of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Several Worlds in Several Circles<\/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-931","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\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}