{"id":1493,"date":"2017-08-06T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:21:40","slug":"andrew-marvell-on-a-drop-of-dew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1493\/poems\/andrew-marvell-on-a-drop-of-dew\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Marvell: On a Drop of Dew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>See how the orient dew,<\/div>\n<div>Shed from the bosom of the morn<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Into the blowing roses,<\/div>\n<div>Yet careless of its mansion new,<\/div>\n<div>For the clear region where \u2019twas born<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Round in itself incloses:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And in its little globe\u2019s extent,<\/div>\n<div>Frames as it can its native element.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How it the purple flow\u2019r does slight,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Scarce touching where it lies,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But gazing back upon the skies,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shines with a mournful light,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Like its own tear,<\/div>\n<div>Because so long divided from the sphere.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Restless it rolls and unsecure,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Trembling lest it grow impure,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Till the warm sun pity its pain,<\/div>\n<div>And to the skies exhale it back again.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So the soul, that drop, that ray<\/div>\n<div>Of the clear fountain of eternal day,<\/div>\n<div>Could it within the human flow\u2019r be seen,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Remembering still its former height,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And recollecting its own light,<\/div>\n<div>Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express<\/div>\n<div>The greater heaven in an heaven less.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In how coy a figure wound,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Every way it turns away:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So the world excluding round,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yet receiving in the day,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dark beneath, but bright above,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Here disdaining, there in love.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How loose and easy hence to go,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How girt and ready to ascend,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Moving but on a point below,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It all about does upwards bend.<\/div>\n<div>Such did the manna\u2019s sacred dew distill,<\/div>\n<div>White and entire, though congealed and chill,<\/div>\n<div>Congealed on earth : but does, 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