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PHILOSOPHICAL

SONNET.

I teach freely to those of my School,
That the four Elements are enclosed in an egg,
And like the chick in flesh, & blood, & bone,
Appears entire, which runs, & lives & flies.

From the devouring dragon of Colchis or Pozzuoli,
I have torn out the teeth, put fire on his back,
And dying little by little, he said these words to me,
Take care not to burn me, & take good heed of my word.

Of gold & silver within me is a whole new world,
As true as a chick is whole within the egg,
By the natural fire, with which its mother hatches it.

But the natural fire of my mother, is my body,
In her alone my secret fire is found,
Having it you shall possess a thousand & a thousand treasures.

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