Mr. Cooke's Original Poems with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language |
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EPISTLE the Sixth, To the right reverend Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, On his being translated from the Bishoprick of Salisbury to Winchester.
Amidst the Honours which your Virtue prove,The Smiles of Princes, and your Country's Love,
Do not, illustrious Sage, regardless view
The Muse's Tribute, to your Virtue due.
While here unfix'd from Stage to Stage you go,
Sowing the Seeds of heav'nly Truth below,
Where-e'er you come fair Charity appears,
And the loud Voice of Joy invades your Ears;
Gladness at your Approach prepares the Way,
And Discontent's a Stranger where you stay.
While here you sow with an unsparing Hand,
Your Harvest-home is in a distant Land;
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Reaps the rich Produce of the Truth he lov'd:
There may your Friend adorn th'æthereal Plain
Long 'e're you join the venerable Train.
Dec. 1734.
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