Poem by Margaret Cavendish

Motion Directs, While Atomes Dance

ATomes will dance, and measures keep just time;
And one by one will hold round circle line,
Run in and out, as we do dance the Hay;
Crossing about, yet keepe just time and way:
While Motion, as Musicke directs the Time:
Thus by consent, they altogether joyne.
This Harmony is Health, makes Life live long;
But when they're out, 'tis death, so dancing's done. 

1. The Bignesse of Atomes
2. What Atomes Make the Wind Collick
3. Of the Sympathy of Atomes
4. Of Loose Atomes
5. In the Center Atomes Never Separate

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