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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner

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xiii. On the Death of a Margarite.

In shelles and gold pearles are not keept alone,
A Margarite here lies beneath a stone;
A Margarite that did excell in worth
All those rich Gemmes the Indies both bring forth;
Who had shee liu'd when good was lou'd of men
Had made the Graces foure the Muses ten,
And forc'd those happye tymes her dayes that claim'd
To be from her the age of pearle still nam'd.
Shee was the rarest jewell of her kynd,
Gract with more beautye than shee left behind,
All Goodnesse Vertue Wonder, and could cheare
The sadest Minds: Now Nature, knowing heere
How Things but showen, then hiden, ar loud best,
This Margaret shrin'd in this marble chest.