TheASTROLOGER.
Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the Number of thy Days is great?
Jobxxxviii. 21.
Thou, by contemplating a SphereWhich Heav’n’s bright Face does show,Events which shall to others chance,Pretendest to foreknow.Tell me, if thou of Fates to comeA skilful Prophet art,When to the Tomb the Hand of DeathShall urge thee to depart?Behold the Sphere, which to thy ViewMy Right-Hand now does hold,By that the Fate which thou shalt findMay better be foretold.
Thou, by contemplating a SphereWhich Heav’n’s bright Face does show,Events which shall to others chance,Pretendest to foreknow.Tell me, if thou of Fates to comeA skilful Prophet art,When to the Tomb the Hand of DeathShall urge thee to depart?Behold the Sphere, which to thy ViewMy Right-Hand now does hold,By that the Fate which thou shalt findMay better be foretold.
Thou, by contemplating a SphereWhich Heav’n’s bright Face does show,Events which shall to others chance,Pretendest to foreknow.
Thou, by contemplating a Sphere
Which Heav’n’s bright Face does show,
Events which shall to others chance,
Pretendest to foreknow.
Tell me, if thou of Fates to comeA skilful Prophet art,When to the Tomb the Hand of DeathShall urge thee to depart?
Tell me, if thou of Fates to come
A skilful Prophet art,
When to the Tomb the Hand of Death
Shall urge thee to depart?
Behold the Sphere, which to thy ViewMy Right-Hand now does hold,By that the Fate which thou shalt findMay better be foretold.
Behold the Sphere, which to thy View
My Right-Hand now does hold,
By that the Fate which thou shalt find
May better be foretold.