The complete poems of Dr. Joseph Beaumont ... For the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introduction, notes and illustrations, glossarial index, and portrait &c. by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart |
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Eloquence.
I
To speak or writeThings which dare meet the searching Light;
Solid Discourses pois'd with fit
Judgment, and trimm'd with handsome Wit;
Sweet Numbers, which can Pleasure's Soul distill,
And thro' the willing Heart their Conquests thrill;
II
Words tuned byThe heavenly Sphere's high Melody;
Which with Devotion's Musick ring,
And the Creator's Glory sing;
Words which with charming ravishment surprize,
And all the Hearers' Souls imparadise;
III
Is brave, I grant:And yet no certain argument
But he who thus doth speak or write
May be a Brat of swarthy Night;
Nor must we think to calculate the Men
By the sole Horoscope of Tongue or Pen.
IV
The Hand which paintsThe Glories of sin-conquering Saints,
And makes the Deaths of Martyrs able
To breath fresh Life on a dead Table,
Upon a wicked Arm too often grows:
'Tis them, and not himself the Painter draws.
V
That Man for meNot in whose Words, but Deeds I see
Zeal's gallant Flames. I dare not found
Substantial Worth upon a Sound:
His only is the solid Excellence
Of Rhetorick, whose Life's his Eloquence.
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