[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 61]

Mercury

II

God art thou of eloquence

Full of life in thy speech

So cold I be in my sense

Because on wings did lack universe

On that wideness {…} stretch

Of the might – since the †.

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If I could think, far away

Into the sum {…} clear.

Then could I, drink with day,

Can we enter to {…} 

Such open things of {…}

That all one could weep to hear.

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[61v]

III

In the † and in the night

That thy wings {…} and light

Then out of law of all space

Full in what is thy delight.

Son of Maia, born[1] of Greece.

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[1] born /son\ /child\