Poems on Several Occasions With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures |
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To a Lady, with the Tragedy of CATO.
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To a Lady, with the Tragedy of CATO.
Two Shining Maids this Happy Work displays;
Each moves our Rapture, both divide our Praise:
In Marcia, we her Godlike Father trace;
While Lucia triumphs with each Softer Grace.
One strikes with Awe, and One gives chaste Delight;
That bright as Lightning, this serene as Light.
Yet by the Muse the shadow'd Forms were wrought,
And Both are Creatures of the Poet's Thought.
Each moves our Rapture, both divide our Praise:
In Marcia, we her Godlike Father trace;
While Lucia triumphs with each Softer Grace.
One strikes with Awe, and One gives chaste Delight;
That bright as Lightning, this serene as Light.
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And Both are Creatures of the Poet's Thought.
In Her that animates these Lines, we view
The Wonder greater, the Description true;
Each living Virtue, ev'ry Grace combin'd,
And Marcia's Worth with Lucia's Sweetness join'd.
The Wonder greater, the Description true;
Each living Virtue, ev'ry Grace combin'd,
And Marcia's Worth with Lucia's Sweetness join'd.
Had She been born ally'd to Cato's Name,
Numidia's Prince had felt a real Flame;
And, pouring his resistless Troops from far,
With bolder Deeds had turn'd the doubtful War;
Cæsar had fled before his Conqu'ring Arms,
And Roman Muses sung her Beauty's Charms.
Numidia's Prince had felt a real Flame;
And, pouring his resistless Troops from far,
With bolder Deeds had turn'd the doubtful War;
Cæsar had fled before his Conqu'ring Arms,
And Roman Muses sung her Beauty's Charms.
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