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Commands, which judgment gives, she still obeys,. Both to depress her flight, and raise,

Thus Mercury from heaven descends,
And to this under world his journey bends,

When Jove his dread commands has given :
But, still, descending, dignity maintains,
As much a God upon our humble plains,
As when he, towering, re-afcends to heaven.

III.

But when thy Goddess takes her flight, With fo much majesty, to such a height, As can alone fuffice to prove,

That the defcends from mighty Jove :.

Gods! how thy thoughts then rife, and foar, and shine! Immortal spirit animates each line;

Each with bright flame that fires our fouls is crown'd, Each has magnificence of found,

And harmony divine.

Thus the first orbs, in their high rounds,
With fhining pomp advance;

And to their own cœleftial founds

Majestically dance.

On, with eternal fymphony, they roll,

Each turn'd in its harmonious course,

And each inform'd by the prodigious force
Of an empyreal foul.

CON

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

HE Hind and the Panther, in three Parts.

THE

Britannia Rediviva, a Poem on the Prince, born on

the 10th of June 1688

Mac-Flecnoe

97

109

EPISTLE S.

Epiftle I. To Sir Robert Howard

II. To Dr. Charleton

III. To the Lady Castlemain

IV. To Mr. Lee

117

121

123

125

Epiftle XIV. To Sir Godfrey Kneller

XV. A familiar Epiftle to Mr. Julian

ELEGIES and EPITAPHS.

I. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

151 157

161

169

II. To the pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew 162
III. Upon the Death of the Earl of Dundee
IV. Eleonora : - A Panegyrical Poem, dedicated to
the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon
V. On the Death of Amyntas

VI. On the Death of a very young Gentleman
VII. Upon young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire
VIII. On the Death of Mr. Purcell

IX. Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore

X. Epitaph on Sir Palmes Fairbones' Tomb
XI. Under Milton's Picture

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189

192

194

ibid.

195

196

197

XII. On the Monument of a fair Maiden Lady ibid.
XIII. Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Pafton
XIV. On the Monument of the Marquis of Win-
chefter