The Whole Works of William Browne of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple |
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Happy Arcadia! while such louely straines
Sung of thy Vallies, Riuers, Hils and Plaines;
Yet most vnhappy other ioyes among,
That neuer heard'st his Musicke nor his Song.
Deafe men are happy so, whose Vertues praise
(Vnheard of them) are sung in tunefull layes.
And pardon me ye Sisters of the Mountaine,
Who waile his losse from the Pegasian Fountaine,
If (like a man for portraiture vnable)
I set my Pencill to Apelles table;
Or dare to draw his Curtaine, with a will
To show his true worth, when the Artists skill
Within that Curtaine fully doth expresse
His owne Arts-Mastry my vnablenesse.
Sung of thy Vallies, Riuers, Hils and Plaines;
Yet most vnhappy other ioyes among,
That neuer heard'st his Musicke nor his Song.
Deafe men are happy so, whose Vertues praise
(Vnheard of them) are sung in tunefull layes.
And pardon me ye Sisters of the Mountaine,
Who waile his losse from the Pegasian Fountaine,
If (like a man for portraiture vnable)
I set my Pencill to Apelles table;
Or dare to draw his Curtaine, with a will
To show his true worth, when the Artists skill
Within that Curtaine fully doth expresse
His owne Arts-Mastry my vnablenesse.
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