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Oculus Britanniae

An Heroi-Panegyrical poem on the University of Oxford. Illustrated with divers beautiful Similes, and useful Digressions [by Nicholas Amhurst]
Amhurst, N. (1697-1742)
 
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Oculus Britanniæ, &c.
 
A Letter of Thanks

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But how shall I the mighty theme sustain
Of Alma's glories in an equal strain?
Unskill'd in verse, and to the muses young,
What God, what angel, will inform my tongue?
Aid me, Delaune; instruct me, reverend sire,
With thy own sacred heat my breast inspire:
O! touch my lips with thy cœlestial art,
And with the same devotion fire my heart.
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