Explanation:
"Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us"
Answer: These lines are taken from Donne's love-lyric 'The Sun Rising'.
The love-sick poet asks the sun to warm their little bedroom which represents the whole world, and thus its duty will be performed fully if it shines here alone.
The little bedroom of the lovers is a world in itself. The poet thinks that his beloved is equal to all the states and kingdoms of the world, and in company with her, he considers himself as rich as all the kings and princes of the world. They are all in all to each other and nothing else matters to them. Compared to the glory of their love, all other glory is mere mockery, and all other wealth is false and deceptive. The sun is not so happy as the poet is, for it lonely and is does not have a beloved like his own. Since the world has shrunk into its little bedroom and the sun's duty is to give light and heat to the world, it will now get some rest, which it so urgently needs in its old age. Its duty will be performed if it only warms their little bed-chamber, which is the world of love. If it gives light to them, it will be giving light to the whole world. So, the little world of the lovers will be the centre around which it will revolve and the four walls of their room will mark its orbit.
These lines contains a beautiful conceit. The bed chamber of the lovers constitute the centre of the Universe and the four walls, the sphere within which the sun revolves. There is an intellectual exercise of the poet. He has blended intellect with emotion by bringing a macrocosm into a microcosm.
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