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[Congratulatory Verses]
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The following congratulatory Verses, wrote at the Arrival of the Honourable PROPRIETARY, came to hand too late to be inserted in our last.
I praise their Ardor, that with generous Pride
To meet your Honour either run or ride,
Yet humbly chuse in private to sit down
And write your Welcome to your longing Town
Wrapt into Ecstasy as You draw near,
With diff'rent Organs now I see and hear;
As once the Stone beneath the sacred Oak, (Josh. xxiv. 26, 27
Heard all the Words the Holy Warrior spoke,
I see the Trees with loftier Branches rise,
And from their Hills look out with eager Eyes,
And seem to wish that they like Men could move,
To meet their Master and express their Love:
The Mountains dance, the chearful Valleys sing,
And Streams well pleas'd run from the lib'ral Spring.
To meet your Honour either run or ride,
Yet humbly chuse in private to sit down
And write your Welcome to your longing Town
Wrapt into Ecstasy as You draw near,
With diff'rent Organs now I see and hear;
As once the Stone beneath the sacred Oak, (Josh. xxiv. 26, 27
Heard all the Words the Holy Warrior spoke,
I see the Trees with loftier Branches rise,
And from their Hills look out with eager Eyes,
And seem to wish that they like Men could move,
To meet their Master and express their Love:
The Mountains dance, the chearful Valleys sing,
And Streams well pleas'd run from the lib'ral Spring.
With virtuous Pride, I hear your Rivers boast,
But Del ware hopes to gain your Favour most,
For his good Service every Moment shown,
To wash the Banks of this your rising Town
Shuylkil some Part would in your favour claim,
And in some sort his Service is the same;
His winding Stream, his Hills, and every Grove,
Humbly present their Service and their Love.
And Sosquehanna large, august and fair,
Reveres your Name, and longs to see you there.
Potomock's northern Streams, and ev'ry Spring,
On your Approach with Acclamations sing,
For Truth and Right they raise their tuneful Song,
And scorn all Words spoke in their Owner's Wrong:
They call you Lord, and while the World endures,
They will belong to none but you and yours.
But Del ware hopes to gain your Favour most,
For his good Service every Moment shown,
To wash the Banks of this your rising Town
Shuylkil some Part would in your favour claim,
And in some sort his Service is the same;
His winding Stream, his Hills, and every Grove,
Humbly present their Service and their Love.
And Sosquehanna large, august and fair,
Reveres your Name, and longs to see you there.
Potomock's northern Streams, and ev'ry Spring,
On your Approach with Acclamations sing,
For Truth and Right they raise their tuneful Song,
And scorn all Words spoke in their Owner's Wrong:
They call you Lord, and while the World endures,
They will belong to none but you and yours.
Your fruitful Province, Sir, where now you stand,
Is vastly larger than your native Land;
And may corrival That in ev'ry Part,
In Corn and Fruit, in Building, Wealth and Art;
It only waits the Work of lab'ring Time:
No Place on Earth can boast a nobler Clime:
The Northern Latitude is here the same,
With fruitful Italy, so loud in Fame.
Is vastly larger than your native Land;
And may corrival That in ev'ry Part,
In Corn and Fruit, in Building, Wealth and Art;
It only waits the Work of lab'ring Time:
No Place on Earth can boast a nobler Clime:
The Northern Latitude is here the same,
With fruitful Italy, so loud in Fame.
Now gliding Time has half a Cent'ry fill'd,
Since your Great FATHER first the Place beheld,
Whose vast presaging Mind, and Sense profound,
Was in the Courts of Kings and Princes own'd:
He laid the Basis, and the Scheme he drew,
Whence PEACE and PLENTY in his Country grew.
Since your Great FATHER first the Place beheld,
Whose vast presaging Mind, and Sense profound,
Was in the Courts of Kings and Princes own'd:
He laid the Basis, and the Scheme he drew,
Whence PEACE and PLENTY in his Country grew.
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