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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Amidst these transports, to our joys a slave,
Death præmaturely snatch'd her to the grave;
That rank disease that fierce corroding flame,
Which takes from Venus its venereal name,
Siez'd on her bloom, polluted all her charms,
And with contagion fill'd her circling arms,
Through every vein the spreading poison rag'd,
And with her life could only be asswag'd.
Death præmaturely snatch'd her to the grave;
That rank disease that fierce corroding flame,
Which takes from Venus its venereal name,
Siez'd on her bloom, polluted all her charms,
And with contagion fill'd her circling arms,
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And with her life could only be asswag'd.
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