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Noah lookes vp, and in the ayre he viewes A semicircle of an hundred hewes; vvhich bright ascending toward th'aetheriall thrones, Hath a line drawne betweene two Horizons For iust Diameter: an euen bent bow Contriu'd of three: whereof the one doth show To be all painted of a golden hew; The second greene, the third an orient blew: Yet so, that in this pure blew-golden greene, Still (ô pall-like) some changeable is seene; A bow bright shining in th'archers hand,
Whose subtile string seemes leuell with the land, Halfe parting heauen, and ouer vs it bends, vvithin two seas wetting his horned ends; A temporall beautie of the lampfull skyes, vvhere powerfull Nature shewes her fresh-red dies. And if you onely blew and red perceaue, The same as signes of sea and fire conceaue, Of both the flowing and the flaming doome, The iudgement past, and iudgement yet to come. I. Siluester.