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Marinda

Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions [by Mary Monck]
  

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On Sight of the Present Empress.

Had Gloriana liv'd, when brightest Charms
Summon'd the Rival Princes all to Arms,

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Whoe'er that World of Beauty had enjoy'd,
No more on Conquest had his Thoughts employ'd,
The Victors ne'er had deign'd new Worlds t'explore,
Or with young Ammon fondly wept for more.
Well may'st Thou Charles th'Iberian Throne resign,
All that is worth contending for is Thine.