Female Poems On Several Occasions Written by Ephelia. The Second Edition, with large Additions |
To Madam F. |
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To Madam F.
Divinest Thing! whom Heaven made to shewThe very utmost that its Skill cou'd do:
If you had liv'd in ancient Rome, or Greece,
You had had Altars built you long ere this.
Not all the Pow'rs they worship'd, e're-possest
Half of the Merit crouds your Noble Brest.
So Good, so Great, so Brave, so Heavenly Fair;
Princes are proud your Lovely Chains to wear:
So perfect are the Vertues of your Mind,
Not Envy's self, a single Stain can find:
The Vastness of your Gallant Soul doth move
The World to pay an Universal Love.
Yet at an awful Distance they admire;
Beyond a Veneration none aspire.
Oh, may these Blessings have a lasting Date,
And You be safe from all the Strokes of Fate:
My Wish is vain, (and Pray'rs are needless too)
Heav'n is too Just to be Unkind to You.
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