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ON THE NEEDLE OF A SUN-DIAL by FRANCIS QUARLES

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEHOLD THIS NEEDLE WHEN THE ARTICK [ARTIC] STONE
Last Line: IN ANY OBJECT BUT HIS HEAVEN, HIS GOD.
Subject(s): FAITH; SUNDIALS; BELIEF; CREED;
Behold this needle when the arctic stone
Has touched it, how it trembles up and down;
Hunts for the Pole, and cannot be possessed
Of peace until it find that point, and rest:
Such is the heart of man, which when it hath
Attained the virtue of a lively faith,
It finds no rest on earth, makes no abode,
In any object but his heaven, his God.




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