The Sun revolving on his axis turns, <br />And with creative fire intensely burns; <br />Impell'd by forcive air, our Earth supreme, <br />Rolls with the planets round the solar gleam. <br />First Mercury completes his transient year, <br />Glowing, refulgent, with reflected glare; <br />Bright Venus occupies a wider way, <br />The early harbinger of night and day; <br />More distant still our globe terraqueous turns, <br />Nor chills intense, nor fiercely heated burns; <br />Around her rolls the lunar orb of light, <br />Trailing her silver glories through the night: <br />On the Earth's orbit see the various signs, <br />Mark where the Sun our year completing shines; <br />First the bright Ram his languid ray improves; <br />Next glaring watry thro' the Bull he moves; <br />The am'rous Twins admit his genial ray; <br />Now burning thro' the Crab he takes his way; <br />The Lion flaming bears the solar power; <br />The Virgin faints beneath the sultry show'r, <br />Now the just Balance weighs his equal force, <br />The slimy Serpent swelters in his course; <br />The sabled Archer clouds his languid face; <br />The Goat, with tempests, urges on his race; <br />Now in the Wat'rer his faint beams appear, <br />And the cold Fishes end the circling year. <br />Beyond our globe the sanguine Mars displays <br />A strong reflection of primoeval rays; <br />Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams, <br />Scarcely enlighten'd with the solar beams, <br />With four unfix'd receptacles of light, <br />He tours majestic thro' the spacious height: <br />But farther yet the tardy Saturn lags, <br />And five attendant Luminaries drags, <br />Investing with a double ring his pace, <br />He circles thro' immensity of space. <br />These are thy wondrous works, first source of Good! <br />Now more admir'd in being understood.<br /><br />Thomas Chatterton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-copernican-system/
