Which I conceive no gainer way is done

Then by the siezing of devouring fire

On that dark Orb, which ’fore but dimly shone

With borrowed light, not lightened entire,

But halfed like the Moon.

And while the busie flame did sieze throughout,

And search the bowels of the lowest mire

Of that Saturnian Earth; a mist broke out,

And immense mounting smoke arose all round about.

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