{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/fq/fq81.htm","path":"neu/eng/fq/fq81.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/fq/fq81.htm","text":"W\n Hen I bethinke me on that speech whyleare,\nOf Mutability, and well it way:\nMe seemes, that though she all vnworthy were\nOf the Heav'ns Rule ; yet very sooth to say,\nIn all things else she beares the greatest sway.\nWhich makes me loath this state of life so tickle,\nAnd loue of things so vaine to cast away;\nWhose flowring pride, so fading and so fickle,\nShort Time shall soon cut down with his consuming sickle.\n \n Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd,\n Of that same time when no more Change shall be,\n But stedfast rest of all things firmely stayd\n Vpon the pillours of Eternity,\n That is contrayr to Mutabilitie:\n For, all that moueth, doth in Change delight:\n But thence-forth all shall rest eternally\n With Him that is the God of Sabbaoth hight:\n O thou great Sabbaoth God, graunt me that Sabaoths sight.","title":"The Faerie Queene: The Cantos of Mutabilitie: Canto VIII","type":"page"}