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Oculus Britanniae

An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst]
 
 

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Fain would the muse, inflam'd with pious zeal,
Millions of other graces still reveal,

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All cent'ring in this man, to bless the age,
His equal mind and temper void of rage,
His energy in pray'r, his faith sublime,
His meekness, love and candour to a crime;
But conscious of her weakness she declines,
And to some college-bard the glorious theme resigns.