And that which doth conspissate active is;

Wherefore not matter but some living sprite

Of nimble Nature which this lower mist

And immense field of Atoms doth excite,

And wake into such life as best doth fit

With his own self. As we change phantasies

The essence of our soul not chang’d a whit,

So do these Atoms change their energies

Themselves unchanged into new Centreïties.

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