The Works of Edmund Waller

With varied Notes the curious ear to please,
And turn a nervous thought with artful ease.
Maker, and model, of melodius verse!
Accept thefe votive honors at thy herse.
While I with filial awe attempt thy praise,
Infufe thy Genius, and my fancy raife!
So, warbling o'er his urn, the woodland choirs
To Orpheus pay the fong his Shade inspires.

In WALLER'S fame, O fairest HARLEY! view
What verdant palms fhall owe their birth to You.
Το you what deathlefs charms are thence decreed,
In Sachariffa's fate vouchfafe to read.

Secure beneath the wing of with'ring Time,
Her beauties flourish in Ambrofial prime :
Still kindling rapture, fee! the moves in state;
Gods, Nymphs, and Heroes, on her triumph wait.
Nor think the lover's praise of love's delight
In pureft minds may ftain the virgin-white:
How bright, and chafte, the Poet and his Theme;
So Cynthia fhines on Arethufa's stream.
A fainted Virtue to the fpheres may fing
Thofe ftrains, that ravish'd bere the Martyr-King.
Plenteous of native wit, in letter'd eafe
Politely formed, to profit and to please,
To Fame whate'er was due he gave to Fame;
And, what he could not praise, forgot to name :
Thus Eden's rofe without a thorn display'd
Her bloom, and in a fragant blush decay'd

Such foul-attracting airs were fung of old,
When blissful years in golden circles roll'd :
Pure from deceit, devoid of fear and ftrife,
While love was all the pensive care of life,
The Twains in green retreats, with flowrets crown'd,
Taught the young groves their paffion to refound:
Fancy perfu'd the paths where beauty led,
'To please the living, or deplore the dead.
While to their warbled woe the rocks reply'd,
The rills remurmur'd, and the Zephyrs sigh'd;

From

From death redeem'd by verfe, the vanished Fair
Breath'd in a flow'r, or fparkled in a start
Bright as the ftars, and fragrant as the flow'ts
Where Spring refides in foft Elyfian bow'rs;
While these the bow'rs adorn, and they the sphere,
Will Sachariffa's charms in fong appear,
Yet, in the prefent age, her radiant name
Muft take a dimmer interval of fame;
When You to full meridian luftre rife,
With Morton's fhape, and Gloriana's eyes;
With Carlisle's wit, her gefture, and her mien;
And, like feraphic Rich, with zeal ferene
In fweet affemblage all their graces join'd
To language, mode, and manners, more refin'd!
That Angel-frame, with chafte attraction gay,
Mild as the dove-ey'd Morn awakes the May,
Of noblest youths will reign the publick care,
Their joy, their wish, their wonder, and despair.
Far-beaming thence what bright ideas-flow!
The fifter-arts with fudden rapture glow:
Her Titian tints the Painter nymph refames;
The canvas warm with rofeate beauty blooms:
Infpir'd with life by Sculpture's happy toil,
The marble breathes, and foftens with your fmile;
Proud to receive the form, by fate design'd
The fairest model of the fairer kind.

But hear, O hear the Mufe's heav'nly voice!
The waving woods, and echoing vales rejoice :
Attend, ye gales! to Margareta's praise;
And all ye lift'ning Loves record the Lays!
So, Philomela charms th' Idalian grove,
When Venus, in the glowing Orb of love,
O'er ocean, earth, and air, extends her reign;
The first, the brightest, of the starry train.

What fav'rite Youth affsign the Fates to rise,
In bridal pomp
to lead the blooming prize?
Whether his father's Garter'd fhield fuftains
Trophies, atchieved on Gallia's viny plains:
Or, fmiling Peace a mingled wreath difplays.
The Patriot's olive, and the Poet's bays :

Adorn,

Adorn, ye Fates! the fav'rite Youth affign'd,
With each ennobling grace of form, and mind:
In merit make him great, as great in blood;
Great without pride, and amiably good:
His breaft the guardian Ark of heav'n-born law,
To ftrike a faithlefs age with conscious awe.
In choice of friends by manly reason fway'd;
Not fear'd, but honor'd; and with love obey'd.
In courts, and camps, in council, and retreat,
Wife, brave, and ftudious to fupport the State,
With candor firm; without ambition, bold;
No deed difcolor'd with the guilt of gold,
That heav'n may judge the choiceft bleffings due;
And give the various Good compriz'd in You.

E. FENTON.

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