Succeeded with a black, yet glorious night;

Stars sweetly shedding to my pleased sense,

On all things their nocturnal influence,

With secret rooms in times and ages more,

Past and to come enlarging my great store:

These all in order present unto me

My happy eyes did in a moment see,

With wonders there-too, to my Soul unknown,

Till they by men and reading first were shewn.

All which were made that I might ever be