Chapter 18 THE TWO DESERTS.

Not greatly moved with awe am I

To learn that we may spy

Five thousand firmaments beyond our own.

The best that's known

Of the heavenly bodies does them credit small.

View'd close, the Moon's fair ball

Is of ill objects worst,

A corpse in Night's highway, naked, fire-scarr'd, accurst;

And now they tell

That the Sun is pla