Poems and Plays by Mr. Jerningham. In Four Volumes ... The Ninth Edition |
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WRITTEN AT THE TOMB OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE. |
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WRITTEN AT THE TOMB OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE.
O flow'r of Chivalry! O valour's stay!O miracle of England's earlier day!
By pleasing awe, and holy musing led,
A Bard now visits thy sepulchral bed.
Ah! not the torrent of thy bright career,
Nor close thy victories and honours here:
When her red bolts Destruction's arm shall wield,
And Time to dread Eternity shall yield!
Thou from the little slumber of the tomb
Shalt start—renew'd in youth's and beauty's bloom;
And with thy virtues warring on thy side,
Sublimely borne on Air's ascending tide,
'Midst men, 'midst angels, to thy triumph giv'n,
Shall burst the radiant gates, and conquer heav'n.
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