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Often appears with: seasons and cycles · providence and stars · providence and divine governance · fate, destiny, and necessity · cosmic order
Usually: verse (1) · wonder (1)
“But through this connected frame Runs one universal aim; Towards the Good do all things tend, Many paths, but one the end.” Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy · insight
A poem presents the cosmos as governed by one universal aim toward the Good, with order in seasons and stars, and concludes that everything tends to its proper end and source.
heaven's height, Wheels his coursers' rapid flight, Though he sees the starry train Sinking in the western main, He repines not, nor desires In the flood to quench his fires. In true sequence, as decreed, Daily morn and eve succeed; Vesper brings the shades of night, Lucifer the morning light. Love, in alternation due, Still the cycle doth renew, And discordant strife is driven From the s…