Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects Occasionally Composed By An Eminent Author. Collected and Published by Sergeant-Major P. F. [i.e. James Howell] |
To my most Endeared R. Altham, Esq
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To my most Endeared R. Altham, Esq
Rare Youth, I stand astonish'd at thy wit,So quaint, so pregnant, and so full of sp'rit;
As if the Thespian Dames for a new Mate,
Another young Apollo would create.
Those few Castalian drops which once I drank
At Aganippes honey-suckled bank,
Are now exhausted much by long disuse;
By cares and cumbers, Travels far, my Muse
Is dull'd, but yours more ripe, and perfect grows,
Now yours doth Knot, now your Invention flows.
O how those Golden days did sweetly shine,
VVhen Contubernal Love did us combine!
VVhen with encircling Arms I fast would keep,
And with old Stories lull us both asleep.
But that tim's past, and passeth still, that Time
VVold scarce permit Me to make up my Rime.
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