| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| John Hall |
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| 53. An Epicurean Ode |
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| SINCE that this thing we call the world | |
| By chance on Atomes is begot, | |
| Which though in dayly motions hurld, | |
| Yet weary not, | |
| How doth it prove | 5 |
| Thou art so fair and I in Love? | |
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| Since that the soul doth onely lie | |
| Immers'd in matter, chaind in sense, | |
| How can Romira thou and I | |
| With both dispence? | 10 |
| And thus ascend | |
| In higher flights then wings can lend. | |
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| Since man's but pasted up of Earth, | |
| And ne're was cradled in the skies, | |
| What Terra Lemnia gave thee birth? | 15 |
| What Diamond eyes? | |
| Or thou alone | |
| To tell what others were, came down? | |
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