| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | The Soule | | II. John Donne |
| | | THEE, eye of heaven, this great soule envies not; | |
| By thy male force is all wee have begot; | |
| In the first East thou now begins to shine; | |
| Suck’st early balme, and island spices there; | |
| And wilt anon, in thy loose-rein’d careere | 5 |
| At Tagus, Po, Sene, Thames, and Danon dine, | |
| And see at night thy Westerne land of Myne: | |
| Yet hast thou not more nations seene than shee, | |
| That before thee one day beganne to bee, | |
| And, thy fraill light being quenched, shall long, long outlive thee. | 10 | | | |
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