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Yet for his pains he soon did him remove,
From all th' oppression and the woe
Of his frail body's native soil below,

To his soul's true and peaceful country above:
So godlike kings, for secret causes, known
Sometimes, but to themselves alone,
One of their ablest ministers elect,

And sent abroad to treaties, which they' intend
Shall never take effect;

But, though the treaty wants a happy end,
The happy agent wants not the reward,
For which he labour'd faithfully and hard;
His just and righteous master calls him home
And gives him, near himself, some honourable room.

Noble and great endeavours did he bring To save his country, and restore his king; And, whilst the manly half of him (which those Who know not love, to be the whole suppose) Perform'd all parts of Virtue's vigorous life; The beauteous half, his lovely wife, Did all his labours and his cares divide; Nor was a lame nor paralytic side: In all the turns of human state, And all th' unjust attacks of Fate, She bore her share and portion still, And would not suffer any to be ill. Unfortunate for ever let me be,

If I believe that such was he

Whom in the storms of bad success,
And all that errour calls unhappiness,
His virtue and his virtuous wife did still accompany;

With these companions 'twas not strange
That nothing could his temper change.
His own and country's union had not weight
Enough to crush his mighty mind:
He saw around the hurricanes of state,
Fixt as an island 'gainst the waves and wind.
Thus far the greedy sea may reach ;
All outward things are but the beach;
A great man's soul it doth assault in vain!
Their God himself the ocean doth restrain
With an imperceptible chain,

And bid it to go back again.

His wisdom, justice, and his piety,
His courage both to suffer and to die,
His virtues, and his lady too,
Were things celestial.

And we see,

In spite of quarrelling Philosophy,

How in this case 'tis certain found,

That Heaven stands still,and only Earth goes round.

ODE.

UPON DR. HARVEY.

Cor Nature (which remain'd, though aged grown,
A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none,
Nor seen unveil'd by any one)

When Harvey's violent passion she did see,
Began to tremble and to flee;

Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree:

There Daphne's lover stopp'd,and thought it much

The very leaves of her to touch:

But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; into the bark and root he after her did go? No smallest fibres of a plant.

For which the eye-beams' point doth sharpness

want,

His passage after her withstood.
What should she do? through all the moving wood
Of lives endow'd with sense she took her flight:
Harvey pursues, and keeps her still in sight.
But as the deer, long-hunted, takes a flood,
She leap'd at last into the winding streams of
blood;

Of man's meander all the purple reaches made,
Till at the heart she stay'd;

Where turning head, and at a bay,

Thus by well-purged ears was she o'erhcard to say;

"Here sure shall I be safe" (said she)
"None will be able sure to see

This my retreat, but only he
Who made both it and me.

The heart of man what art can e'er reveal?
A wall impervious between

Divides the very parts within,

And doth theheart of man ev'n from itself conceal."
She spoke: but, ere she was aware,
Harvey was with her there;

And held this slippery Proteus in a chain,
Till all her mighty mysteries he descry'd;
Which from his wit th' attempt before to hide
Was the first thing that Nature did in vain,

He the young practice of new life did see,
Whilst, to conceal its toilsome poverty,
It for a living wrought, both hard and privately.
Before the liver understood

The noble scarlet dye of blood;
Before one drop was by it made,
Or brought into it, to set up the trade;
Before the untaught heart began to beat
The tuneful march to vital heat;
From all the souls that living buildings rear,
Whether employ'd for earth, or sea, or air;
Whether it in womb or egg be wrought;
A strict account to him is hourly brought
How the great fabric does proceed,
What time, and what materials, it does need ;
He so exactly does the work survey,
As if he hir'd the workers by the day.

Thus Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book, The creatures-which by God himself was writ: And wisely thought 'twas fit,

Not to read comments only upon it,

But on th' original itself to look.

Methinks in Art's great circle others stand
Lock'd-up together, hand in hand;
Every one leads as he is led;
The same bare path they tread,

And dance, like fairies, a fantastic round,
But neither change their motion nor their ground:
Had Harvey to this road confin'd his wit,

His noble circle of the blood had been untrodden

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O cruel loss! as if the golden fleece,

With so much cost and labour bought, And from afar by a great hero brought,

Had sunk ev'n in the ports of Greece. O cursed War! who can forgive thee this? Houses and towns may rise again; And ten times easier 'tis

To rebuild Paul's, than any work of his: That mighty task none but himself can do, Nay, scarce himself too, now;

For, though his wit the force of age withstand, His body, alas! and time, it must command; And Nature now, so long by him surpass'd, Will sure have her revenge on him at last.

ODE, FROM CATULLUS.

ACME AND SEPTIMIUS.

WHILST on Septimius' panting breast
(Meaning nothing less than rest)
Acme lean'd her loving head,
Thus the pleas'd Septimius said:
"My dearest Acme, if I be
Once alive, and love not thee
With a passion far above
All that c'er was called love;
In a Libyan desert may
I become some lion's prey;
Let him, Acme, let him tear

My breast, when Acme is not there."

The god of love, who stood to hear him
(The god of love was always near him)
Pleas'd and tickled with the sound,
Sneez'd aloud; and all around
The little Loves, that waited by,
Bow'd, and blest the augury.
Acme, enflam'd with what he said,
Rear'd her gently-bending head;
And, her purple mouth with joy
Stretching to the delicious boy,
Twice (and twice could scarce suffice)
She kist his drunken rolling eyes.
"My little life, my all!" (said she)
So may we ever servants be

To this best god, and ne'er retain
Our hated liberty again!

So may thy passion last for me,
As I a passion have for thee,
Greater and fiercer much than can
Be conceiv'd by thee a man!
Into my marrow is it gone,
Fixt and settled in the bone;

It reigns not only in my heart,

But runs, like life, through every part.”

She spoke; the god of love aloud

Sneez'd again; and all the crowd
Of little Loves, that waited by,

Bow'd, and blest the augury.
This good omen thus from Heaven
Like a happy signal given,

Their loves and lives (all four) embrace,
And hand in hand run all the race.
To poor Septimius (who did now
Nothing else but Acme grow)
Acme's bosom was alone

The whole world's imperial throne;

And to faithful Acme's mind
Septimius was all human-kind.
If the gods would please to be
But advis'd for once by me,
I'd advise them, when they spy
Any illustrious piety,

To reward her, if it be she-
To reward him, if it be he-
With such a husband, such a wife;
With Acme's and Septimius' life.

ODE

Virg.

UPON HIS MAJESTY'S RESTORATION AND RETURN. -Quod optanti divům promittere nemo Auderet, volvenda dies, en, attulit ultro. Now blessings on you all, ye peaceful stars, Which meet at last so kindly, and dispense Your universal gentle influence

To calm the stormy world, and still the rage of wars! Nor, whilst around the continent Plenipotentiary beams ye sent,

Did your pacific lights disdain

In their large treaty to contain The world apart, o'er which do reign Your seven fair brethren of great Charles his wain; No star amongst ye all did, I believe, Such vigorous assistance give, As that which, thirty years ago, At Charles's birth 3, did, in despite Of the proud Sun's meridian light, His future glories and this year foreshow. No less effects than these we may Be assur'd of from that powerful ray, Which could out-face the Sun, and overcome the day,

Auspicious star! again arise,

And take thy noon-tide station in the skies,
Again all heaven prodigiously adorn;
For lo! thy Charles again is born.
He then was born with and to pain;
With and to joy he's born again.
And, wisely for this second birth,
By which thou certain were to bless

The land with full and flourishing happiness,

Thou mad'st of that fair month thy choice, In which heaven, air, and sea, and earth, And all that's in them, all, does smile and does rejoice.

'Twas a right season; and the very ground Ought with a face of Paradise to be found,

Then, when we were to entertain

Felicity and Innocence again.

Shall we again (good Heaven!) that blessed pair be

hold,

Which the abused people fondly sold

For the bright fruit of the forbidden tree,

By seeking all like gods to be? Will Peace her halcyon nest venture to build Upon a shore with shipwrecks fill'd, And trust that sea, where she can hardly say She has known these twenty years one calmy day?

3 The star that appeared at noon, the day of the king's birth, just as the king his father was riding to St. Paul's to give thanks to God for that blessing.

Ah! mild and gall-less dove,
Which dost the pure and candid dwellings love,
Canst thou in Albion still delight?
Still canst thou think it white?
Will ever fair Religion appear
In these deform'd ruins? will she clear
Th' Augean stables of her churches here?
Will Justice hazard to be seen

Where a high court of justice e'er has been?
Will not the tragic scene,

And Bradshaw's bloody ghost, affright her there,
Her, who shall never fear?

Then may Whitehall for Charles's seat be fit,
If Justice shall endure at Westminster to sit.
Of all, methinks, we least should see
The chearful looks again of Liberty.
That name of Cromwell, which does freshly still
The curses of so many sufferers fill,

Is still enough to make her stay,
And jealous for a while remain,
Lest, as a tempest carried him away,
Some hurricane should bring him back again.
Or, she might justlier be afraid

Lest that great serpent, which was all a tail,
(And in his poisonous folds whole nations pri-
soners made)

Should a third time perhaps prevail To join again, and with worse sting arise, As it had done when cut in pieces twice.

Return, return, ye sacred Four! And dread your perish'd enemies no more.

Your fears are causeless all, and vain, Whilst you return in Charles's train; For God does him, that he might you, restore, Nor shall the world him only call Defender of the Faith, but of you all. Along with you plenty and riches go, With a full tide to every port they flow,

With a warm fruitful wind o'er all the country blow.

Honour does, as ye march, her trumpet sound,

The Arts encompass you around,
And, against all alarms of Fear,
Safety itself brings up the rear.
And, in the head of this angelic band,
Lo! how the goodly prince at last does stand
(0 righteous God!) on his own happy land:
'Tis happy now, which could with so much ease
Recover from so desperate a disease;

A various complicated iH,
Whose every symptom was enough to kill;
In which one part of three frenzy possest,
And lethargy the rest:

'Tis happy, which no bleeding does endure,
A surfeit of such blood to cure:
'Tis happy, which beholds the flame
In which by hostile hands it ought to burn,

Or that which, if from Heaven it came,
It did but well deserve, all into bonfire turn.
We fear'd (and almost touch'd the black degree
Of instant expectation)

That the three dreadful angels we, Of famine, sword, and plague, should here establish'd see,

(God's great triumvirate of desolation!)
To scourge and to destroy the sinful nation.
Justly might Heaven Protectors such as those,
And such committees, for their safety, impose
Upon a land which scarcely better chose.

We fear'd, that the fanatic war, Which men against God's houses did declare, Would from the Almighty enemy bring down A sure destruction on our own.

We read th' instructive histories which tell Of all those endless mischiefs that befel The sacred town which God had lov'd so well, After that fatal curse had once been said, "His blood be upon ours and on our children's head."

We know, though there a greater blood was spilt, 'Twas scarcely done with greater guilt.

We know those miseries did befal
Whilst they rebell'd against that prince, whom all
The rest of mankind did the love and joy of man-
kind call.

Already was the shaken nation

Into a wild and deform'd chaos brought,

And it was hasting on (we thought) Even to the last of ills-annihilation: When, in the midst of this confused night, Lo! the blest Spirit mov'd, "and there was light;" For, in the glorious general's previous ray,

We saw a new created day:

We by it saw, though yet in mists it shone,
The beauteous work of Order moving on.
Where are the men who bragg'd that God did bless,
And with the marks of good success

Sign his allowance of their wickedness?
Vain men! who thought the Divine Power to find
In the fierce thunder and the violent wind:
God came not till the storm was past;

In the still voice of Peace he came at last!
The cruel business of destruction

May by the claws of the great fiend be done;
Here, here we see th' Almighty's hand indeed,
Both by the beauty of the work we see't, and by
the speed.

He who had seen the noble British heir,
Even in that ill disadvantageous light
With which misfortune strives t'abuse our sight-
He who had seen him in his cloud so bright-
He who had seen the double pair

Of brothers, heavenly good! and sisters, heavenly fair!

Might have perceiv'd, methinks, with ease, (But wicked men see only what they please) That God had no intent t'extinguish quite

The pious king's eclipsed right.
He who had seen how by the Power Divine
All the young branches of this royal line
Did in their fire, without consuming, shine-
How through a rough Red-sea they had been led,
By wonders guarded, and by wonders fed-
How many years of trouble and distress
They 'ad wander'd in their fatal wilderness,
And yet did never murmur or repine;-

Might, methinks, plainly understand,
That, after all these conquer'd trials past,
Th' Almighty mercy would at last
Conduct them, with a stong unerring hand,
To their own promis'd land:
For all the glories of the Earth
Ought to b' entail'd by right of birth;

And all Heaven's blessings to come down..
Upon his race, to whom alone was given.
The double royalty of Earth and Heaven;
Who crown'd the kingly with the martyr's

crown.

The martyrs' blood was said, of old, to be
The seed from whence the church did
grow.

The royal blood which dying Charles did sow
Becomes no less the seed of royalty:

'Twas in dishonour sown;

We find it now in glory grown, The grave could but the dross of it devour; ""Twas sown in weakness, and 'tis rais'd in power."

We now the question well decided see,
Which eastern wits did once contest,

At the great monarch's feast,

"Of all on earth what things the strongest be?" And some for women, some for wine, did plead; That is, for folly and for rage,

Two things which we have known indeed

Strong in this latter age;

But, as 'tis prov'd by Heaven, at length,
The king and Truth have greatest strength,
When they their sacred force unite,

And twine into one right:

No frantic commonwealths or tyrannies;
No cheats, and perjuries, and lies;
No nets of human policies;

No stores of arms or gold (though you could join
Those of Peru to the great London mine);
No towns; no fleets by sea, or troops by land;
No deeply-entrench'd islands, can withstand,
Or any small resistance bring,
Against the naked Truth and the unarmed king.
The foolish lights which travellers beguile

End the same night when they begin ;
No art so far can upon Nature win

As e'er to put out stars, or long keep meteors in.

Where's now that ignus fatuus, which ere-while Misled our wandering isle?

Where's the impostor Cromwell gone? Where's now that falling-star, his son? Where's the large comet now, whose raging flaine

So fatal to our monarchy became;

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Begin their glorious march with thee: Long may their march to Heaven, and still triumphant be!

Now thou art gotten once before,
Ill-fortune never shall o'er-take thee more.
To see 't again, and pleasure in it find,
Cast a disdainful look behind;

Things which offend when present, and affright,
In memory well-painted move delight.

Enjoy then all thy afflictions now→
Thy royal father's came at last;
Thy martyrdom's already past:
And different crowns to both ye wwe.
No gold did e'er the kingly temples bind,

Than thine more try'd and more refin'd,
As a choice medal for Heaven's treasury,
The image of his suffering humanity:
God did stamp first upon one side of thee

On th' other side, turn'd now to sight, does shine
The glorious image of his power divine!

So, when the wisest poets seek
In all their liveliest colours to set forth
A picture of heroic worth,

Which o'er our heads in such proud horrour stood, (The pious Trojan or the prudent Greek)

Insatiate with our ruin and our blood?

The fiery tail did to vast length extend;
And twice for want of fuel did expire,

And twice renew'd the dismal fire:

Though long the tail, we saw at last its end.
The flames of one triumphant day.
Which, like an anti-comet here,
Did fatally to that appear,
For ever frighted it away:

Then did th' allotted hour of dawning right
First strike our ravish'd sight;

Which Malice or which Art no more could stay,
Than witches' charms can a retardment bring
To the resuscitation of the Day,

Or resurrection of the Spring. We welcome both, and with improv'd delight Bless the preceding Winter, and the Night! Man ought his future happiness to fear,

If he be always happy here

He wants the bleeding marks of grace,
The circumcision of the chosen race.
If no one part of him supplies

The duty of a sacrifice,

He is, we doubt, reserv'd entire
As a whole victim for the fire.

They chuse some comely prince of heavenly

birth,

(No proud gigantic son of Earth, Who strives t'usurp the gods' forbidden seat) They feed him not with nectar, and the meat That cannot without joy be ate;

But, in the cold of want, and storms of adverse chance,

They harden his young virtue by degrees:
The beauteous drop first into ice does freeze,
And into solid crystal next advance.

His murder'd friends and kindred he does see,
And from his flaming country flee:
Much is he tost at sea, and much at land;
Does long the force of angry gods withstand:
He does long troubles and long wars sustain,
Ere he his fatal birth-right gain.
With no less time or labour can
Destiny build up such a man,
Who's with sufficient virtue fill'd

His ruin'd country to rebuild.

Nor without cause are arms from Heaven,

To such a hero by the poets given

No human metal is of force t' oppose

So mary and so violent blows.

Such was the helmet, breast-plate, shield
Which Charles in all attacks did wield:
And all the weapons Malice e'er could try,
Of all the several makes of wicked Policy,
Against this armour struck, but at the stroke,
Like swords of ice, in thousand pieces broke.
To angels and their brethren spirits above,
No show on Earth can sure so pleasant prove,
As when they great misfortunes see
With courage borne, and decency.

So were they borne when Worcester's dismal day
Did all the terrours of black Fate display!
So were they borne when no disguises' cloud

His inward royalty could shrowd;
And one of th' angels whom just God did send
To guard him in his noble flight
(A troop of angels did him then attend!)
Assur'd me, in a vision th' other night,
That he (and who could better judge than he?)
Did then more greatness in him see,
More lustre and more majesty,

Than all his coronation-pomp can show to human
eye.

Him and his royal brothers when I saw

New marks of honour and of glory
From their affronts and sufferings draw,
And look like heavenly saints e'en in their
gatory;

| The starry worlds, which shine to us, afar,
Take ours at this time for a star.
With wine all rooms, with wine the conduits, flow;
And we, the priests of a poetic rage,

Wonder that in this golden age

The rivers too should not do so.
There is no Stoic, sure, who would not now
Ev'n some excess allow;

And grant that one wild fit of cheerful folly
Should end our twenty years of dismal melan-
choly.

Where's now the royal mother, where,

To take her mighty share

In this so ravishing sight,

And, with the part she takes, to add to the de light?

Ah! why art thou not here,

Thou always best, and now the happiest queen!
To see our joy, and with new joy be seen;
God has a bright example made of thee,

To show that woman-kind may be
Above that sex which her superior seems,
In wisely managing the wide extremes
Of great affliction, great Felicity.

How well those different virtues thee become,
Daughter of triumphs, wife of martyrdom!
pur-Thy princely mind with so much courage bore
Affliction, that it dares return no more;
With so much goodness us'd felicity,

Methought I saw the three Judean youths
(Three unhurt martyrs for the noblest truths!)
In the Chaldean furnace walk;
How cheerfully and unconcern'd they talk!
No hair is sing'd, no smallest beauty blasted!
Like painted lamps they shine unwasted!
The greedy fire itself dares not be fed
With the blest oil of an anointed head.

The honourable flame

(Which rather light we ought to name)
Does like a glory compass them around,
And their whole body's crown'd.

What are those two bright creatures which we see
Walk with the royal three
In the same ordeal fire,

And mutual joys inspire?

Sure they the beauteous sisters are,

Who, whilst they seek to bear their share,
Will suffer no affliction to be there.
Less favour to those three of old was shown:
To solace with their company

The fiery trials of adversity!

Two angels join with these, the other had but

one.

Come forth, come forth, ye men of God belov'd!
And let the power now of that flame,

Which against you so impotent became,
On all your enemies be prov'd.

Come, mighty Charles ! desire of nations! come;
Come, you triumph exile, bome.

He's come, he's safe at shore; 1 hear the noise
Of a whole land which does at once rejoice,
I hear th' united people's sacred voice.

The sea which circles us around,
Ne'er sent to land so loud a sound;
The mighty shout sends to the sea a gale,

And swells up every sail :

The bells and guns are scarcely heard at all;
The artificial joy's drown'd by the natural.
All England but one bonfire seems to be,
One Etna shooting flames into the sea:

That it cannot refrain from coming back to thee,
'Tis come, and seen to-day in all its bravery !
Who's that heroic person leads it on,

And gives it, like a glorious òride,
(Richly adorn'd with nuptial pride)
Into the hands now of thy son?

'Tis the good general, the man of praise.
Whom God at last, in gracious pity,
Did to th' enthralled nation raise,
Their great Zerubbabel to be;
To loose the bonds of long captivity,
And to rebuild their temple and their city!
For ever blest may he and his remain,
Who, with a vast, though less appearing, gain,
Preferr'd the solid great above the vain,
And to the world this princely truth has shown→→→→
That more 'tis to restore, than to usurp a crown!
Thou worthiest person of the British story!

(Though 'tis not small the British glory)
Did I not know my humble verse must be
But ill-proportion'd to the height of thee,
Thou and the world should see
How much my Muse, the foe of flattery,
Does make true praise her labour and design;
An Iliad or an Eneid should be thine.
And ill should we deserve this happy day,
If no acknowledgments we pay
To you, great patriots of the two
Most truly other houses now,

Who have redeem'd from hatred and from shame
A parliament's once venerable name;

And now the title of a house restore,

To that which was but slaughter house before,
If my advice, ye worthies! might be ta'en,
Within those reverend places,

Which now your living presence graces,
Your marble statues always should remain,
To keep alive your useful memory,
And to your successors th' example be
Of truth, religion, reason, loyalty:

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