Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Sir John Davies (15691626)Self-Ignorance
WE seek to know the moving of each sphere, | |
And the strange cause of th’ ebbs and floods of Nile; | |
But of that clock within our breasts we bear, | |
The subtle motions we forget the while. | |
We that acquaint ourselves with every zone | 5 |
And pass both tropics, and behold the poles, | |
When we come home are to ourselves unknown, | |
And unacquainted still with our own souls. | |