“Tempests and windes and winter-nights
Vex not, that but One sees thee grow,
That One made all these lesser lights.”

"The Seed Growing Secretly".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: Tempests and windes and winter-nights
Vex not, that but One sees thee grow,
That One made all these lesser lights.
If those bright joys He singly sheds
On thee, were all met in one crown,
Both sun and stars would hide their heads;
And moons, though full, would get them down.

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Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet 1621–1695

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