Poems With the Muses Looking-Glasse. Amyntas. Jealous Lovers. Arystippus. By Tho: Randolph ... The fourth Edition enlarged [by Thomas Randolph] |
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A Song.
[Musick thou Queen of souls, get up and string]
Musick thou Queen of souls, get up and stringThy pow'rful Lute, and some sad requiem sing,
Till Rocks require thy Eccho with a groan:
And the dull clifts repeat the duller tone:
Then on a sudden with a nimble hand
Run gently o're the Chordes, and so command
The Pine to dance, the Oak his Roots forgo,
The Holme and aged Elme to soot it too;
Mirtles shall caper, lofty Cedars run,
And call the Courtly Palme to make up one;
Then in the mid'st of all their Iolly train,
Strike a sad note; and fix'em Trees again.
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