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Updated: May 12, 2025
Beside, the Shadow of the Earth, had the Moon any innate and peculiar Light, cou'd not obscure it, but, on the contrary, would render it more conspicuous, as is evident to Reason. "Now Experience shews us, that the Moon appears with the greater Light eclips'd in its Apogée, or greater Distance, and more obscure when in its Perigée, or nearer Distance, consequent has no peculiar Light of its own.
Mankind take up some blushes on the score; Monopolize perfection no more; In your own Arts confess yourself out-done, The Moon hath totally eclips'd the Sun, Not with her Sable Mantle muffling him; But her bright silver makes his gold look dim; Just as his beams force our pale lamps to wink, And earthly Fires, within their ashes shrink.
When I say they are of a Nature, I mean opaque, which to prove, I argue thus: If this Planet be of it self luminous, it must appear much brighter when eclips'd in its perigée, or nearest Distance from the Earth, and its Light must be less consequently when in its Apogée, or greatest Distance from it; for the nearer a luminous Body approaches the Eye, the stronger Impression it makes upon the Sight.
Charm'd into Love, of what eclips'd their Fame! They mak'd Apollo, with her pow'rful Name. See! God of Grecian Wit! Urania cries, How sweet a Muse, the Western World supplies! Say, shou'd she ask some Favour, from your throne, What could you bid her take, that's not her own? Sparkling in Charms, the heav'nly Stranger view So grac'd! she scarce can owe a Beam to You!
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