“I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great ring of pure and endless light.
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv'n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world
And all her train were hurled.”

"The World".
Silex Scintillans (1655)

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Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet 1621–1695

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