Poem by Margaret Cavendish

What Atomes Make Death

LIfe is a Fire, and burnes full hot,
But when Round watry Atomes power have got:
Then do they quench Lifes Atomes out,
Blunting their Points, and kill their courage stout.
Thus they sometimes do quite thrust out each other,
When equall mix'd, live quietly together.
The cause why things do live and dye,
Is as the mixed Atomes lye. 

1. The Bignesse of Atomes
2. All Sharpe Atomes Do Run To The Center, And
3. Motion Directs, While Atomes Dance
4. Of Loose Atomes
5. Of Sharpe Atomes

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