The Sphere Of Archimedes Out Of Claudian, [Epigramma XVIII]

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Title:     The Sphere Of Archimedes Out Of Claudian, [Epigramma XVIII]
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

Jupiter in parvo cum cerneret aethera vitro
Risit, et ad superos, &c.

When Jove a heav'n of small glass did behold,
He smil'd, and to the gods these words he told.
"Comes then the power of man's art to this?
In a frail orb my work new acted is,
The poles' decrees, the fate of things, God's laws,
Down by his art old Archimedes draws.
Spirits inclos'd the sev'ral stars attend,
And orderly the living work they bend.
A feigned Zodiac measures out the year,
Ev'ry new month a false moon doth appear.
And now bold industry is proud, it can
Wheel round its world, and rule the stars by man.
Why at Salmoneus' thunder do I stand?
Nature is rivall'd by a single hand."

[The end]
Henry Vaughan's poem: Sphere Of Archimedes Out Of Claudian, [Epigramma XVIII]

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