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Such likeness in his successor we find,
Left as the image of himself behind ;
With all the virtues of his race endued ;

345 The happy father's in the son renewd.

Methinks I see a pompous tomb arise,
Beauteous the form, magnificent the size :
Enchas’d with ore, with well-wrought marble made,
Worthy the artist, and the glorious shade.

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Crowds of officious angels weep around,
With lamps extinguish'd, and their robes unbound !
With heads reclin’d, and drooping wings they mourn,
Form'd to sustain, and grace the ponderous urn.
In abject poftures, and a flowing dress,

355 Postures that love and tenderness express : The sacred Nine surround the spacious tomb, And spread infectious sorrows o'er the dome; Their lyres unstrung are thrown neglected by, And scatter'd wreaths in just disorder lie.

High in the midst is his effigies plac'd, The boast of art, with every beauty grac’d. Advancing age in every line appears, And shades his brow with honourable years : Just to his form, his looks dissembled right, 365 With joy detain the fond spectator's sight.

Descending Phoebus crowns the upper fcene,
À His arm extended with triumphant green :

The facred wreath around his brows to place,
And shedding on him the paternal rays.

37 In vain, alas! we mausoleums raise, Statues erect, and pyramids of praise:

A no.

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A nobler monument remains behind,
The lively image of his generous mind,
The sacred pile rais’d by bis pious care,
Magnificent with cost, with order fair ;
Adorn' with all that lavish art could give,
To late posterity shall make him live.
This shall diffuse his celebrated name,
More than the hundred tongues of busy fame :
His memory from dark oblivion save,
Elude his fate, and triumph o'er the grave.

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C O N T E N T S C ο Ν Τ ENTS

Against immoderate Grief. To a young Lady weeping. An Ode in Imitation of Casimire

351 Hymn to the Morning, in Praise of Light

353 Hymn to Darkness

355 Human Life, supposed to be spoken by an Epicure. In

Imitation of the second Chapter of the Wisdom of
Solomon

359 Against Enjoyment

363 The Curse of Babylon. Isaiah Chap. xiii. paraphrased 365 To Mr. Congreve. An epistolary Ode, 1693. Occasioned by the Old Bachelor

371 The Insect; against Bulk

374 To his Friend Captain Chamberlain, in Love with a

Lady he had taken in an Algerine Prize at Sea. In

Allusion to Horace, Ode ii. 4. To Mr. Watson, on his Ephemeris of the Celestial

Motions, presented to her Majesty The Rape of Theutilla. Imitated from the Latin of Fa

mianus Strada. Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 1693

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The Force of Jealousy. To a Lady asking if her Sex was as sensible of that Passion as Man

389 To his perjured Mistrefs Imitation of Horace, Book i. Ode xii.

394 Patroclus's Request to Achilles for his Arms. Imitated

from the Beginning of the 16th Iliad of Homer 396 On the re-printing of Milton's Profe Works, with his Poems;

written in his Paradise Loft
To Sir Humphry Mackworth, on the Mines late

Carbery Price
Ovid's Art of Love. Book II.
Essay on the Character of Sir Willoughby Aston

THE END OF YALDEN'S POEMS.