State Tracts Containing Many Necessary Observations and Reflections on the State of our Affairs at Home and Abroad; With some Secret Memoirs. By the Author of the Examiner [i.e. William Oldisworth] |
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On the UNION A POEM
To the QUEEN.
How shall
my Muse express thy Pow'r or Praise,
Whose Godlike Gifts are Crowns, and Peaceful Days,
While our weak Eyes delude our weaker Sense,
To view a Mortal with Omnipotence?
How cou'dst thou else, when
Discord had o'erspread
This Isle, couch it in its own proper Bed?
How cou'dst thou make a Paradise appear,
Where such Dissentions has possess'd the Sphere?
Restore that Sun and Moon again, whose Light
Give us Day now, and over-rules our Night.
How cou'd'st thou make each disagreeing Beast,
Trust their own Safety in each other's Breast?
How cou'dst thou Flagrant Mischief overawe,
And calmly make it yield to Nature's Law?
When stubborn Nations jarr'd with mutual Spite,
'Twas then thou shone with a Diviner Light,
And then inspir'd the People to Unite.
Treaties of Old refus'd thou didst Renew,
And perfected, to show what thou cou'dst do.
Whose Godlike Gifts are Crowns, and Peaceful Days,
While our weak Eyes delude our weaker Sense,
To view a Mortal with Omnipotence?
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This Isle, couch it in its own proper Bed?
How cou'dst thou make a Paradise appear,
Where such Dissentions has possess'd the Sphere?
Restore that Sun and Moon again, whose Light
Give us Day now, and over-rules our Night.
How cou'd'st thou make each disagreeing Beast,
Trust their own Safety in each other's Breast?
How cou'dst thou Flagrant Mischief overawe,
And calmly make it yield to Nature's Law?
When stubborn Nations jarr'd with mutual Spite,
'Twas then thou shone with a Diviner Light,
And then inspir'd the People to Unite.
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And perfected, to show what thou cou'dst do.
When Beauty had no Form, and Form no Sire,
Nor Waters felt the quickning Force of Fire;
As the first Chaos at th'Almighty Call,
So at your Nod Subjection fell on all:
The Sword declin'd its Head and seem'd to low'r;
And drop'd to find your Word of greater Pow'r;
Nor Waters felt the quickning Force of Fire;
As the first Chaos at th'Almighty Call,
So at your Nod Subjection fell on all:
The Sword declin'd its Head and seem'd to low'r;
And drop'd to find your Word of greater Pow'r;
We are amaz'd at this strange
Act of thine,
This Union looks so like a Work Divine.
What shall we say? By making of us One,
You've fix'd upon your Head a Tripple Crown;
The Glory of Ten Crowns is all too vain,
As a Reward to offer such a Soveraign.
For Virtue 'tis makes her great Fame and Worth,
The Widow's Oyl encrease by pouring forth:
A Torrent thus in Winter that does flow,
O'er Trees and Hills in Summer, runs below;
The higher led by Fortune ANNA gets,
Her Goodness ev'ry where the more remits.
Then let us think on thee, while we Suppress
Our Words, for Speaking will but make thee Less
Fathom the Ocean, and what we find
Boundless, by Measures cannot be confin'd;
Tho' after you with Phæbus Light we run,
We must not think to overtake the Sun,
While with its Light it opens our Eyes thus,
The Brightness as we view it dazles us.
This Union looks so like a Work Divine.
What shall we say? By making of us One,
You've fix'd upon your Head a Tripple Crown;
The Glory of Ten Crowns is all too vain,
As a Reward to offer such a Soveraign.
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The Widow's Oyl encrease by pouring forth:
A Torrent thus in Winter that does flow,
O'er Trees and Hills in Summer, runs below;
The higher led by Fortune ANNA gets,
Her Goodness ev'ry where the more remits.
Then let us think on thee, while we Suppress
Our Words, for Speaking will but make thee Less
Fathom the Ocean, and what we find
Boundless, by Measures cannot be confin'd;
Tho' after you with Phæbus Light we run,
We must not think to overtake the Sun,
While with its Light it opens our Eyes thus,
The Brightness as we view it dazles us.
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When Winter's past the Teeming Earth grows glad,
And Prides it self like Infants newly clad;
So Love this Union meets, its Joy to fill,
Past Fears and Dangers spreading farther still.
Two Realms embrace our Patriots with one Heart,
While Heaven and ANNA fill up every Part.
A Gift Twice Giv'n, first from the God's above,
Then here, we shou'd return with double Love;
But while we think on this, and wonder thus,
Fate shows it self still more Miraculous.
O never for a happier Nation leave us,
Since all we are, and do enjoy, you give us!
For whom you've made a New World to dispence,
Your ever Wise Protecting Providence.
Ne'er leave us till our growing Palm expands
Above the daring reach of human Hands;
Until you've made United Britain seem
A very Golden Brook and Silver Stream;
The very Land of Happiness, from whence
Proceeds such wond'rous Pow'r and Excellence;
And Prides it self like Infants newly clad;
So Love this Union meets, its Joy to fill,
Past Fears and Dangers spreading farther still.
Two Realms embrace our Patriots with one Heart,
While Heaven and ANNA fill up every Part.
A Gift Twice Giv'n, first from the God's above,
Then here, we shou'd return with double Love;
But while we think on this, and wonder thus,
Fate shows it self still more Miraculous.
O never for a happier Nation leave us,
Since all we are, and do enjoy, you give us!
For whom you've made a New World to dispence,
Your ever Wise Protecting Providence.
Ne'er leave us till our growing Palm expands
Above the daring reach of human Hands;
Until you've made United Britain seem
A very Golden Brook and Silver Stream;
The very Land of Happiness, from whence
Proceeds such wond'rous Pow'r and Excellence;
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Let Xerxes ride in his vast Armies Front,
Dry Rivers up, and Stem the Hellespont,
All this wont equal what we now enjoy,
By healing Union, and soft Liberty.
Praise here must sink in Merit when we strive
To keep an Act so wond'rous great alive:
Dry Rivers up, and Stem the Hellespont,
All this wont equal what we now enjoy,
By healing Union, and soft Liberty.
Praise here must sink in Merit when we strive
To keep an Act so wond'rous great alive:
Then let us Dedicate the Happy Day
That Britons do their Just Oblations pay,
To Union first, to Flora, and to May.
The Triumph of our Joy from thence bears Date,
When Thee and ANNA's Name we Celebrate;
When we cry Triumph with a Jubilee,
We cann't but we must cast our Eyes on Thee;
Those Rays that made this Day, and which were sent
By kinder Heaven on the Parliament;
When we sing Io Pæans we must say,
That it was Providence that led the Way.
That Britons do their Just Oblations pay,
To Union first, to Flora, and to May.
The Triumph of our Joy from thence bears Date,
When Thee and ANNA's Name we Celebrate;
When we cry Triumph with a Jubilee,
We cann't but we must cast our Eyes on Thee;
Those Rays that made this Day, and which were sent
By kinder Heaven on the Parliament;
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That it was Providence that led the Way.
To give to
ANNA Praise, and to prefer
This Day of Flora Sacred unto her.
So Jove's Bird doubles with his Two Sun'd Sight,
And only Day appears by this clear Light;
Our Phœbus thus in his true Lustre seems,
When we behold him with these shining Beams;
When we our Thanks to our great Patriots pay,
Shou'd we at any but this Altar pray?
Derive our Fate from any other Spring,
Than this blest Royal Chrystal Stream, the Queen?
This Day of Flora Sacred unto her.
So Jove's Bird doubles with his Two Sun'd Sight,
And only Day appears by this clear Light;
Our Phœbus thus in his true Lustre seems,
When we behold him with these shining Beams;
When we our Thanks to our great Patriots pay,
Shou'd we at any but this Altar pray?
Derive our Fate from any other Spring,
Than this blest Royal Chrystal Stream, the Queen?
Et quo te Carmine dicam?
Virg. Georg. l. 2. ------ O Fama ingens ------
Quibus Cœlo tu laudibus æquem?
Virg. Æ. l. 11. ------ Utinam modo dicere possem
Carmina digna.
Ovid Met. lib. 5. f. 6.
Virg. Georg. l. 2. ------ O Fama ingens ------
Quibus Cœlo tu laudibus æquem?
Virg. Æ. l. 11. ------ Utinam modo dicere possem
Carmina digna.
Ovid Met. lib. 5. f. 6.
------ Furor impius intus
Sæva sedit super arma, & centum victus abenis
Post tergum Nodis.
Lucan. l. 7.
Sæva sedit super arma, & centum victus abenis
Post tergum Nodis.
Lucan. l. 7.
Cum canibus timidi veniunt Pocula damæ.
Vir. Ecl. 8. Ipse licet videas, cavea fabulantur in una,
Et pariter socias carpit uterq; dapes.
Mart. l. 9. Ep. 72.
Vir. Ecl. 8. Ipse licet videas, cavea fabulantur in una,
Et pariter socias carpit uterq; dapes.
Mart. l. 9. Ep. 72.
------ Quem flagitat. ------
Vestra diem Virtus, finis Civilibus armis,
Quem quæsitis adest.
Lucan. l. 7.
Vestra diem Virtus, finis Civilibus armis,
Quem quæsitis adest.
Lucan. l. 7.
O fortunatæ Gentes, ------
------ Quae nos fortuna quietos
Sollicitat, suadetq; ignota lacessere bella?
Virg. Æ. l. 11.
------ Quae nos fortuna quietos
Sollicitat, suadetq; ignota lacessere bella?
Virg. Æ. l. 11.
Pendet in hac anima Populorum vita salusque
------ O serum fælix turela, salusque.
Mart. l. 5. Ep. 1.
------ O serum fælix turela, salusque.
Mart. l. 5. Ep. 1.
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