Poems on Several Occasions ... To which is added, the Plague of Wealth, Occasion'd By the Author's receiving fifty Pounds from his Excellency the Lord Carteret, for the foremention'd Ode. With several Poems not in the Dublin Edition. By Matthew Pilkington. Revised by the Reverend Dr. Swift |
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ODE II.
Nature, bounteously array'd
Ev'ry Animal she made
With such Arms, as best conduce
To its Safety, or its Use.
Ev'ry Animal she made
With such Arms, as best conduce
To its Safety, or its Use.
Nature horny Terrors spread
O'er the Bull's majestic Head:
Hoofs she gave the gen'rous Steed,
And to Hares the Light'ning's Speed:
To the scaly Kind she gave
Finns, to cut the chrystal Wave:
To the Birds, exempt from Care,
Wings to sport in Fields of Air;
But, to nobler Man assign'd
An intrepid martial Mind.
O'er the Bull's majestic Head:
Hoofs she gave the gen'rous Steed,
And to Hares the Light'ning's Speed:
To the scaly Kind she gave
Finns, to cut the chrystal Wave:
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Wings to sport in Fields of Air;
But, to nobler Man assign'd
An intrepid martial Mind.
What had Nature left, to grace
The diviner Female Race?
Beauty: whose prevailing Charms
Prove the most resistless Arms:
Beauty Shield and Sword supplies,
Beauty vanquishes the Wise;
Beauty, made to be ador'd,
Safe defies the threat'ning Sword,
Can devouring Flames asswage,
And repel their desp'rate Rage;
Beauty, makes the Hero fall,
Conquers those who conquer all.
The diviner Female Race?
Beauty: whose prevailing Charms
Prove the most resistless Arms:
Beauty Shield and Sword supplies,
Beauty vanquishes the Wise;
Beauty, made to be ador'd,
Safe defies the threat'ning Sword,
Can devouring Flames asswage,
And repel their desp'rate Rage;
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Conquers those who conquer all.
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