Let him imagine, who would well conceive 1522 What now I saw, and let him while I speak Retain the image as a steadfast rock, The fifteen stars, that in their divers regions The sky enliven with a light so great That it transcends all clusters of the air; Let him the Wain imagine unto which 1523 Our vault of heaven sufficeth night and day, So that in turning of its pole it fails not; Let him the mouth imagine of the horn 1524 That in the point beginneth of the axis Round about which the primal wheel revolves⁠— To have fashioned of themselves two signs in heaven, Like unto that which Minos’ daughter made, 1525 The moment when she felt the frost of death; And one to have its rays within the other, And both to whirl themselves in such a manner That one should forward go, the other backward; And he will have some shadowing forth of that True constellation and the double dance