[Gnōthi seauton] Know yourself. A poem / [John Arbuthnot].

  • Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735
Date:
1734
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Gnōthi seauton] Know yourself. A poem / [John Arbuthnot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With Look ere&, I dart my longing Eye* Seem wing’d to part? and gain my native Sky; I ftrive to mount, but ftrive, alas! in vain, \ ‘ ■** * nrfi. V * •>» A .» ' * - - * J&' tl - J , - c.'_ >*’ - '*« ^ -.13.' Ty’d to this malTy Globe with magick Chain. J .* . & .* -* i |f \ ... * - ■' i* £ * '* ■* ■ «’ ' * Now with fwift Thought I range from Pole to Pole, if » > N> 'y, View Worlds around their flaming Centers roll: ■ * - -■» v. ■ ;■ .j ' / i r . What fteddy Powers their endlefs Motions guide, Thro’ the fame tradtlefs Paths of boundlefs Void! ^ A-«a-•* J it V *••*>' ir>* L ;■*+!* .it, /•' Vv- ,jr* ‘jVu ^ • I trace the blazing Comet’s fiery Trail, And weigh the whirling Planets in a Scale: O ^ . • . vD ■.. j» . I ; ‘ Thefe Godlike Thoughts, while eager I purfue. Some glitt’ring Trifle offer’d to my view, \ ■ . C • *• ‘ ‘ \ : \ A Gnat, an Infedt, of the meaneft: kind, * • - - - * • -* * - - V- * . . - ^ . .. . .. „s.- Erafe the new-born Image from my Mind; Some beaftly Want, craving, importunate. Vile as the grinning Maftiffs at my Gate, Calls off from heav’nly Truth this reas’ning Me, And tells me I’m a Brute as much as He. If on fublimer Wings of Love and Praife, My Soul above the fiarry Vault I raife,