And as the sun above the light doth bring, Though we behold it in the air below, So from th eternal Light the soul doth spring, Though in the body she her powers do show.
ATTRIBUTION:
Sir John Davies (15691626), British poet. Nosce Teipsum.
OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.