Thalia Rediviva The Pass-times and Diversions of a Countrey-muse, In Choice Poems on several Occasions. With Some Learned Remains of the Eminent Eugenius Philalethes. Never made Publick till now [by Henry Vaughan] |
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To Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist: upon these and his former Poems.
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To Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist: upon these and his former Poems.
Had I ador'd the Multitude, and thence
Got an Antipathy to wit and sence,
And hugg'd that Fate, in hope the World would grant
'Twas good Affection to the Ignorant:
Yet the least Ray of thy bright fancy seen
I had converted, or excuseless been.
For each Birth of thy Muse to after-times
Shall expiate for all this Ages Crimes.
First shines thy Amoret, twice crown'd by thee:
Once by thy Love, next by thy Poetrie;
Where thou the best of Unions dost dispense
Truth cloath'd in Wit, and Love in Innocence.
So that the muddie Lover may learn here,
No Fountains can be sweet, that are not clear.
There Juvenal, by thee reviv'd declares
How flat man's Joys are, and how mean his Cares,
And wisely doth upbraid the World, that they
Should such a value for their ruine pay.
Got an Antipathy to wit and sence,
And hugg'd that Fate, in hope the World would grant
'Twas good Affection to the Ignorant:
Yet the least Ray of thy bright fancy seen
I had converted, or excuseless been.
For each Birth of thy Muse to after-times
Shall expiate for all this Ages Crimes.
First shines thy Amoret, twice crown'd by thee:
Once by thy Love, next by thy Poetrie;
Where thou the best of Unions dost dispense
Truth cloath'd in Wit, and Love in Innocence.
So that the muddie Lover may learn here,
No Fountains can be sweet, that are not clear.
There Juvenal, by thee reviv'd declares
How flat man's Joys are, and how mean his Cares,
And wisely doth upbraid the World, that they
Should such a value for their ruine pay.
But when thy sacred Muse diverts her Quill
The Landskip to design of Sions Hill,
As nothing else was worthy her, or thee:
So we admire almost t' Idolatrie.
What savage Breast would not be rap'd to find
Such Jewels in such Cabinets enshrin'd?
Thou fill'd with joys (too great to see or count:)
Descend'st from thence, like Moses from the Mount,
And with a candid, yet unquestion'd awe
Restorst the Golden Age, when Verse was Law.
Instructing us, thou so secur'st thy Fame,
That nothing can disturb it, but my name.
Nay I have hopes, that standing so near thine
'Twill loose its dross, and by degrees refine.
Live! till the disabused World consent
All Truths of Use, of Strength or Ornament
Are with such Harmony by thee display'd
As the whole World was first by number made;
And from the charming rigour thy Muse brings
Learn, there's no pleasure but in serious things!
The Landskip to design of Sions Hill,
As nothing else was worthy her, or thee:
So we admire almost t' Idolatrie.
What savage Breast would not be rap'd to find
Such Jewels in such Cabinets enshrin'd?
Thou fill'd with joys (too great to see or count:)
Descend'st from thence, like Moses from the Mount,
And with a candid, yet unquestion'd awe
Restorst the Golden Age, when Verse was Law.
That nothing can disturb it, but my name.
Nay I have hopes, that standing so near thine
'Twill loose its dross, and by degrees refine.
Live! till the disabused World consent
All Truths of Use, of Strength or Ornament
Are with such Harmony by thee display'd
As the whole World was first by number made;
And from the charming rigour thy Muse brings
Learn, there's no pleasure but in serious things!
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