Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) - From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb
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You love the _Labour'd Travels_ of the Pen;
Imploy the Minutes of your vacant Time On _Cowley_, or on _Dryden's_ useful Rhyme: Or whom besides of all the Tribe you chuse, The _Tragick, Lyrick_, or _Heroick_ Muse: For they, if well observ'd, will strictly shew In _Charming Numbers_, what is false, what true, And teach more good than _Hobbs_ or _Lock_ can do. Hail, ye _Poetick Dead_, who wander now In Fields of Light! at your fair Shrines we bow. Freed from the Malice of Injurious Fate, Ye blest Partakers of a happier State! Whether Intomb'd with _English Kings_ you sleep, Or Common Urns your Sacred Ashes keep: There, on each Dawning of the tender Day, May Tuneful Birds their pious Off'rings pay! There may sweet Myrrh with Balmy Tears perfume The hallow'd Ground, and Roses deck the Tomb. While You, Who live, no frowning Tempest fear, Sing on; let _Montague_ and _Dorset_ hear. In Stately Verse let _William's_ Praise be told, WILLIAM rewards with Honour and with Gold. No more of _Richelieu's_ Worth: Forget not, Fame, To change _Augustus_ for Great _William's_ Name. Who, tho' like _Homer's_ _Jupiter_, he sate, Musing on something eminently great And ballanc'd in his Mind the World's important Fate; Lays by the vast Concern, and gladly hears |
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