On which Heaven’s palace archèd lies;
The other days fill up the spare
And hollow room with vanities.
They are the fruitful beds and borders
In God’s rich garden; that is bare
Which parts their ranks and orders.”
In alluding to the change from the seventh to the first day of the week, now observed as the Christian’s Sunday, the poet uses very beautiful and expressive imagery to account for the alteration.
“The brightness of that day
We sullied by our foul offence,
Wherefore that robe we cast away,