Nor as a vessell water doth containe; Nor as one liquor in another shed; Nor as the heat doth in the fire remaine; Nor as a voice throughout the ayre is spread: But as the faire and cheerfull _Morning light_, Doth here and there her siluer beames impart, And in an instant doth herselfe vnite To the transparent ayre, in all, and part: Still resting whole, when blowes th' ayre diuide; Abiding pure, when th' ayre is most corrupted; Throughout the ayre, her beams dispersing wide, And when the ayre is tost, not interrupted: So doth the piercing _Soule_ the body fill, Being all in all, and all in part diffus'd; Indiuisible, incorruptible[121] still, Not forc't, encountred, troubled or confus'd. And as the _sunne_ aboue, the light doth bring, Though we behold it in the ayre below; So from th' Eternall Light the _Soule_ doth spring, Though in the body she her powers doe show. [Footnote 118: Davies and Southey, as before, insert 'forth' here. G.] [Footnote 119: Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'o'er:' but 'on' is the Poet's own word here and elsewhere. G.] [Footnote 120: In 1599 and 1608 editions, 'her.' G.] [Footnote 121: In 1598 and 1608 editions, 'vncorruptible.' G.] HOW THE SOUL DOTH EXERCISE HER POWERS IN THE BODY. _But as_ the[122] world's _sunne_ doth effects beget, Diuers, in diuers places euery day; Here _Autumnes_ temperature, there _Summer's_ heat, Here flowry _Spring-tide_, and there _Winter_ gray: Eere _Euen_, there _Morne_, here _Noone_, there _Day_, there _Night_; Melts wax, dries clay, mak[e]s flowrs, som quick,[123] som dead; Makes the _More_ black, and th' _Europ[oe]an_ white, Th' _American_ tawny, and th' _East-Indian_ red: So in our little World: this _soule_ of ours, Being onely one, and to one body tyed, Doth vse, on diuers obiects diuers powers, And so are her effects diuersified. THE VEGETATIUE OR QUICKENING POWER. _Her quick'ning_ power in euery lining part, Doth as a nurse, or as a mother serue; And doth employ her _oeconomicke art_, And busie care, her houshold to preserue Here she _attracts_, and there she doth _retaine_, There she _decocts_, and doth the food prepare; There she _distributes_ it to euery vaine, There she _expels_ what she may fitly spare. This power to _Martha_ may comparèd be,[124] Which busie was, the _houshold-things_ to doe; Or to a _Dryas_, liuing in a tree:[125] For euen to trees this power is proper too. And though the Soule may not this power extend Out of the body, but still vse it there; She hath a power which she abroad doth send, Which views and searcheth all things euery where. [Footnote 122: 'This' in 1599 edition. G.] [Footnote 123: Living. G.] THE POWER OF SENSE.