This is more or less a religious sonnet.
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Oh glassy sky, within your cloudless vault
Your golden queen, upon her flaming seat
Charms the oceans, whose waves in earthly salt
Bow to her lively blessings and entreat
Her kindly skirt of light and fiery crown
That ripens early summer in a fruitful gown
Oh lustful sky, your gaudy mistress
Who even charms the bashful mountain peak
Has yet to tell you, has yet to confess
That before the heavens how dim, how meek
Her praying face burns, as it gives to us
The sheen of god’s garden, that doth our skies emboss
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Brief explanation on a Lullehean sonnet:
It comprises two stanzas of six lines, with rhyming pattern ABABCC. The last line of each stanza is an alexandrine (because it is a kind of punchline). This form is suitable for a comparative argument or something like that, as you see, in the first stanza, I compare the sun to the earth and in the second I compare it to the heavens. (God’s heavens)
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