Philip Ayres - In Sphaeram Archimedis. Claudian, Englished lyrics

Jove saw the sphere old Archimedes made, And to the other Gods he laughing said, "Such wondrous sk** can crafty mortals get, Of my great work to make the counterfeit? Heav'n's and Earth's constitutions, fixt by Fate, This Syracusan's art does imitate; His various planets their just order have, Keeping by springs the motions which he gave; Thro' the twelve signs his Sun completes its years, And each new month, his mock new-Moon appears; Pleas'd with his World, this artist unconfined, Boldly rules Heav'n in his aspiring mind. No more Salmoneus' thunder I admire, Here's one has ap'd all Nature's works entire."