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Leave thefe accurs'd; and to the Mountains Height
Afcend; nor once look backward in your Flight.
They hafte, and what their tardy Feet deny'd,
The trufty Staff (their better Leg) fupply'd.
An Arrows Flight they wanted to the Top,
And there fecure, but fpent with Travel, ftop;
Then turn their now no more forbidden Eyes;,
Loft in a Lake the floated Level lies:

A Watry Defart covers all the Plains,
Their Cot alone as in an Ifle, remains:
Wond'ring with weeping Eyes, while they deplore
Their Neighbour's Fate, and Country now no more..
Their little Shed, fcarce large enough for Two,
Seems from the Ground increas'd, in height and bulk
(to grow.
A ftately Temple fhoots within the Skies,
The Crotches of their Cot in Columns rife :
The Pavement polifh'd Marble they behold,
The Gates with Sculpture grac'd, the Spires and
Tiles of Gold.
Then thus the Sire of Gods, with Look ferene
Speak thy Defire; thou only just of Men;
And thou, O Woman, only worthy found
To be with fuch a Man in marriage bound.
A while they Whisper, then to Jove addrefs'd,,
Philemon thus prefers their joynt Request.
We crave to ferve before your Sacred Shrine,,
And offer at your Altars Rites Divine :
And fince not any Action of our Life,
Has been polluted with Domeftick Strife,
We beg one Hour of Death; that neither the:
With Widows Tears may live to bury me,.
Nor weeping I, with wither'd Arms may bear
My breathlefs Baucis to the Sepulcher..
The Godheads fign their fuit. They run their Race
In the fame Tenor all th' appointed Space:

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Then, when their Hour was come, while they relate
Thefe paft Adventures at the Temple-Gate,
Old Baucis is by old Philemon feen

Sprouting with fudden Leaves of fpritely Green :
Old Baucis looked where old Philemon tood,
And faw his lengthen'd Arms a fprouting Wood:
New Roots their faften'd Feet begin to bind,
Their Bodies ftiffen in a rifing Rind:

Then e'er the Bark above their Shoulders grew,
They give and take at once their last Adieu:
At once, farewel, O faithful Spouse, they faid;
At once th' incroaching rinds their clofing Lips in-

Ev'n yet, an ancient Tyandan fhows

A fpreading Oak, that near a Linden grows;
The Neighbourhood confirm the Prodigie,
Grave Men, not vain of Tongue, or like to lie.
I faw my felf the Garlands on their Boughs,
And Tablets hung for Gifts of granted Vows;
And off'ring frefher up, with pious Pray'r,
The Good, faid I, are God's peculiar Care,

(vade.

And fuch as honour Heaven, fhall heav'nly honour

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XLIV.

The RESURRECTION.

I.

NOT Winds to Voyages at Sea,

Nor Showers to Earth more neceffary be, (Heaven's vital Seed caft on the Womb of Earth To give the fruitful Year a Birth)

Than Verfe to Virtue which can do
The Midwifes Office, and the Nurses too;
It feeds it ftrongly, and it cloathes it gay,
And when it dyes, with comely pride
Embalms it, and erects a Pyramid
That never will decay

Till Heaven it felf fhall melt away,
And nought behind it stay.

2.

Begin the Song, and ftrike the Living Lyre;

Lo how the Years to come, a numerous and well-fitted (Quire,

All Hand in Hand do decently advance,

And to my Song with finooth and equal meafures dance
Whilft the dance lafts, how long fo e're it be,
My Mufick's Voice fhall bear it Company.

Till all gentle Notes be drown'd

In the last Trumpets dreadful found.

That to the Spheres themfelves fhall filence bring,
Untune the Univerfal String,

Then all the wide extended Sky,

And all the harmonious Worlds on high,
And Virgil's Sacred Work fhall die,

And he himself fhall fee in one Fire fhine

Rich Nature's ancient Troy,tho' built by Hands div

3.

Whom Thunder's difinal Noife,

And all that Prophets and Apoft les louder spake,
And all the Creatures plain confpiring Voice,
Could not whilst they lived awake
This mightier found fhall make
When Dead t' arife,

And open Tombs, and open Eyes.
To the long Sluggards of five thousand Years
This mightier found fhall make its Hearers Ears.
Then fhall the fcatter'd Atoms crowding come
Back to their ancient Home,

Some from Birds, from Fishes fome,
Some from Earth, and fome from Seas,
Some from Beafts, and fome from Trees.
Some defcend from Clouds on high,
Some from Metals upwards fly,

And where th' attending Soul naked and shivering

Meet, Salute, and joyn their Hands.

As difperft Soldiers at the Trumpets call.
Hafte to their Colours all."

Unhappy moft, like tortur'd Men,

(ftands

Their Joints new fet, to be new rack't again.
To Mountains they for felter pray,

The Mountains shake, and run about no less confus à (than they,

4.

Stop, ftop, my Mufe, allay thy vigorous Heat,

Kindled at a Hint fo great.

Hold thy Pindarique Pegafus closely in,
Which does to Rage begin,

And this fteep Hill would gallop up with violent courfe 'Tis an unruly and a Hard-Mouth'd Horfe,

Fierce, and unbroken yet,
Impatient of the Spur or Bit

Now

Now prances fately, and anon flies o're the Place,
Difdains the fervile Law of any fettled Pace,
Confcious and Proud of his own natural Force
'Twill no unskill'd Touch endure,

But flings Writer and Reader too that fits not fure.

Cowley.

XLV.

To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verfes to the KING. By Mr. Edmund Waller.

AN

N early Plant, which fuch a Bloffom bears, And fhows a Genius fo beyond his Years; . A Judgment which cou'd make fo fair a Choice, So high a Subject to employ his Voice: Still as it grows, how fweetly will he fing The growing greatness of our matchless King?

XLVI.

To Mr. Waller.

By Mr. G. Granville.

WHEN into Lybia the young Grecian cane,
To talk with Hammon, and confult for Fame;
When from the facred Tripod where he stood,
The Prieft infpir'd, faluted him a God;
Scarce fuch a Joy that haughty Victor knew,
When own'd by Heaven, as I thus fung by you.

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