Thalia Rediviva The Pass-times and Diversions of a Countrey-muse, In Choice Poems on several Occasions. With Some Learned Remains of the Eminent Eugenius Philalethes. Never made Publick till now [by Henry Vaughan] |
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Upon the Ingenious Poems of his Learned Friend, Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist.
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Upon the Ingenious Poems of his Learned Friend, Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist.
Fairly design'd! to charm our Civil Rage
With Verse, and plant Bayes in an Iron Age.
But hath steel'd Mars so ductible a Soul,
That Love and Poesie may it controule?
Yes: brave Tyrtæus, as we read of old,
The Grecian Armies, as he pleas'd cou'd mold;
They march'd to his high Numbers, and did fight
With that instinct and rage, which he did write.
When he fell lower, they would strait retreat,
Grow soft and calm: and temper their bold heat.
Such Magick is in Vertue! See hear a young
Tyrtæus too, whose sweet persuasive Song
Can lead our Spirits any way, and move
To all Adventures: either War or Love.
With Verse, and plant Bayes in an Iron Age.
But hath steel'd Mars so ductible a Soul,
That Love and Poesie may it controule?
Yes: brave Tyrtæus, as we read of old,
The Grecian Armies, as he pleas'd cou'd mold;
They march'd to his high Numbers, and did fight
With that instinct and rage, which he did write.
When he fell lower, they would strait retreat,
Grow soft and calm: and temper their bold heat.
Such Magick is in Vertue! See hear a young
Tyrtæus too, whose sweet persuasive Song
Can lead our Spirits any way, and move
To all Adventures: either War or Love.
Then veil the bright Etesia, that choice She,
Lest Mars, (Timander's Friend) his Rival be.
So fair a Nymph, drest by a Muse so neat,
Might warm the North, and thaw the frozen Gete.
Lest Mars, (Timander's Friend) his Rival be.
So fair a Nymph, drest by a Muse so neat,
Might warm the North, and thaw the frozen Gete.
Tho. Powel, D. D.
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