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Collection Of Poems, A (6 Volumes) (BCL1-PR English Literature)
Collection Of Poems A - 6 Volumes - BCL1-PR English Literature Author:Robert Dodsley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: .THE f FEMALE R E I G N: O D E. By Mr. COBB. WHAT can the Britifh fenate give, To make the name of Anna live, By future people to be fung, The lab... more »our of each grateful tongue ? Can faithful regifters, or rhyme, In charming eloquence, or fprightly wit, The wonders of her reign tranfmit To th' unborn children of fucceeding time ? Can painters' oil, or ftatuaries' art, Eternity to her impart? No ! titled ftatues are but empty things, Infcrib'd to royal vanity, F a The The facrifice of. flattery To lawlefs Neros, or Bourbonian kings. True virtue to her kindred ftars afpires, Does all our pomp of ftone and verfe furpafs, And mingling with etherial fires, No ufelefs ornament requires From fpeaking colours, or from breathing brafs. Greateft of princes ! where the wand'ring fan Does o'er earth's habitable regions roll, From th' eaftern barriers to the weftern goal, And fees thy race of glory run "With fwiftnefs equal to his own: Thee on the banks of Flandrian Scaldis fings The jocund fwain, releas'd from Gallic fear : The Englim voice unus'd to hear, Thee the repeating banks, thee every valley rings. The fword of heav'n how pious Anna wields, And heav'nly vengeance on the guilty deals, Let the twice fugitive Bavarian tell; "Who, from his airy hope of better ftate, , By luft of fway irregularly great, Like an apoftate angel fell: Who, by imperial favour rais'd, I' th' higheft rank of glory blaz'd : And had 'till now unrivall'd fhone, More than a king, contented with his own; But Lucifer's bold fteps he trod, Who durft aflault the throne of God ; And for contented realms of blifsful light, Gain'd the fad privilege to be The firft in folid mifery, Monarch of hell, and woes, and everlafting night. Corruption of the beft is always worft ; And fou...« less