That as a babe a spirit new I may evince.”
The planets seven o’er every unborn babe keep watch,
Each for a stated period, ere its birth’s despatch.55
When life’s infused into the nascent atom’s form,
The sun takes charge, as watcher o’er the feeble worm.
The babe its life derives from Sol’s all-quickening rays.
That radiant orb’s the fount of life’s all-wondrous ways.
The other planets help to modify its limbs;
Each, when the sun has life infused, then onward climbs.
What is the channel of connection with the sun,