The works of Mr. Thomas Brown Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings |
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Upon Mr. Creech's Translation of Lucretius.
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Upon Mr. Creech's Translation of Lucretius.
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Let not the Thracian Bard admire,Whose powerful Strains, and list'ning Stones inspire,
To keep just Measures with his Lyre;
Tho' taught by his commanding Harmony,
The Beasts forgot their Native Cruelty,
And to a universal Peace did jointly all conspire.
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Thy sacred Hand does more,That does Lucretius again restore,
Who was a mighty Solitude before:
His rowling Atoms now we see,
In Squadrons and just Measures lie,
Even in Confusion now appears just Symmetry,
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Nought but a heav'nly Hand could makeThese Atoms their old Nothing forsake,
And a true decent Order take:
Thy charitable Hand has greatet Wonders done,
And has Lucretius his own Errors shown:
Our modern Atheist grieves to see
His belov'd Sins so lash'd by thee,
That do'st in this deserve ev'n of Posterity.
What Trophies can thy Victory out-do,
That triumph'st o'er the present Times, the past, and future too?
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