University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Poems on Several Occasions

By Jonathan Smedley
 

collapse section
 
 
 
 
On Mr. Welfted's presenting his Ode on the Duke of Marlborough's Apoplexy, to a Celebrated Toast.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


6

On Mr. Welfted's presenting his Ode on the Duke of Marlborough's Apoplexy, to a Celebrated Toast.

If, thus, the Tuneful Bard his Voice can raise,
When England's Mars, expiring, damps his Lays,
How! could he sing, and in what rapturous Rhimes
Describe the Living Venus of our Times?