She’s all states, and all princes I;
Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us;compared to this,
All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world’s contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre, these walls thy sphere.
DAMN, John Donne.