Flosculum Poeticum Poems Divine and Humane, Panegyrical, Satyrical, Ironical. By P. K. [i.e. Peter Ker] |
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On a Beautiful Young Lady.
Once Beauty, Vertue, Wisdom, Grace,Conveined in a certain place.
And altogether did combine,
To make a Feminine Divine:
And flying swiftly on a-pace,
Did light upon this Lady's face:
And having all they stood in need,
They to the Work did thus proceed.
BEAUTY (to make her all delight)
Did bring a Rose, was red, and white:
And in a smiling Blush did skip,
From Cherry Cheek, to Scarlet Lip.
Then VERTUE laugh'd at Beauty's weed,
As needful but Secundum quid.
And (with a gentle flame) refin'd
Her eye, the Index of her mind.
Then WISDOME Vertue gave a check,
And did her oversight detect;
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To tempt to Vite, or breed envy.
Then having (with a pierceing flash)
Made Vertue proof, of Beauty's dash.
The one she ballenc'd with the other;
That both might live, and die together.
Then GRACE came in a gentle gale,
And set her Soul all under sail.
And (nimbly) flew a modest race,
With all the three, and gain'd her face:
And from her Mouth, and sparkling Eye;
O'rspread her whole Physiognomy.
Yet she no Critick did commence,
To Reason slight, or banish Sense,
Or set at nought the other three;
Because of her precedencie.
But granted them a dwelling place,
Within the Suburbs of her Face:
Subjecting only them to pay
Devotion's Tribute, every day.
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