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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Mourn, all ye sons of learning, Saby's fate,
In verse and prose the mighty loss relate:
With tropes and figures, Cotes, embalm her name,
Wharton, in grateful metre chaunt her fame,
Let each surviving Toast her garland bring,
And lavish o'er her grave the flowery spring;
In streams of blood let conscious Isis flow,
Let Charwell swell the sympathetick woe,
Let Christ-church Tom her loss vociferous roar,
Tom, who ne'er mourn'd for aught but kings before;
In hymns of woe let every college join,
In social grief let every voice combine,
Let every heart with bursting sighs approve
Our sorrow as diffusive as her love.
In verse and prose the mighty loss relate:
With tropes and figures, Cotes, embalm her name,
Wharton, in grateful metre chaunt her fame,
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And lavish o'er her grave the flowery spring;
In streams of blood let conscious Isis flow,
Let Charwell swell the sympathetick woe,
Let Christ-church Tom her loss vociferous roar,
Tom, who ne'er mourn'd for aught but kings before;
In hymns of woe let every college join,
In social grief let every voice combine,
Let every heart with bursting sighs approve
Our sorrow as diffusive as her love.
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