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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348021" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the Death of E. Waller, Esq.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring <br>(Worthy thy Fame) a grateful Offering? <br>I, who by Toils of Sickness, am become <br>Almost as near as thou art to a Tomb? <br>While every soft, and every tender Strain <br>Is ruffl'd, and ill-natur'd grown with Pain. <br>But, at thy Name, my languisht Muse revives, <br>And a new Spark in the dull Ashes strives. <br>I hear thy tuneful Verse, thy Song Divine; <br>And am lnspir'd by every charming Line. <br>But, Oh! ––––––––– <br>What Inspiration, at the second hand, <br>Can an Immortal Elegic Command? <br>Unless, Me Pious Offerings, mine should be <br>Made Sacred, being Consecrate to thee. <br>Eternal, as thy own Almighty Verse, <br>Should be those Trophies that adom thy Hearse. <br>The Thought Illustrious, and the Fancy Young; <br>The Wit Sublime, the Judgment Fine, and Strong; <br>Soft, as thy Notes to Sacharissa sung. <br>Whilst mine, like Transitory Flowers, decay, <br>That come to deck thy Tomb a short-liv'd Day. <br>Such Tributes are, like Tenures, only fit <br>To shew from whom we hold our Right to Wit. <br>Hafl, wondrous Bard, whose Heav'n-born Genius first <br>My Infant Muse, and Blooming Fancy Nurst. <br>With thy soft Food of Love I first began, <br>Then fed on nobler Panegyrick Strain, <br>Numbers Seraphic! and, at every View, <br>My Soul extended, and much larger grew:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where e're I Read, new Raptures seiz'd my Blood; <br>Methought I heard the Language of a God. <br>Long did the untun'd World in Ignorance stray, <br>Producing nothing that was Great and Gay, <br>Till taught, by thee, the true Poetick way. <br>Rough were the Tracts before, Dull, and Obscure; <br>Nor Pleasure, nor Instruction could procure. <br>Their thoughtless Labour could no Passion move; <br>Sure, in that Age, the Poets knew not Love: <br>That Charming God, like Apparitions, then <br>Was only talk'd on, but ne're seen by Men: <br>Darkness was o're the Muses Land displaid, <br>And even the Chosen Tribe unguided straid. <br>Till, by thee rescu'd from th' Egyptian Night, <br>They now look up, and view the God of Light, <br>That taught them how to Love, and how to Write; <br>And to Enhance the Blessing which Heav'n lent, <br>When for our great Instructor thou wert sent. <br>Large was thy Life, but yet thy Glories more; <br>And, like the Sun, did still dispense thy Power, <br>Producing somthing wondrous every hour: <br>And, in thy Circulary Course, didst see <br>The very Life and Death of Poetry. <br>Thou saw'st the Generous Nine neglected lie, <br>None listning to their Heav'nly Harmony; <br>The World being grown to that low Ebb of Sense, <br>To disesteem the noblest Excellence; <br>And no Encouragement to Phophets shewn, <br>Who in past Ages got so great Renown. <br>Though Fortune Elevated thee above <br>Its scanty Gratitude, or fickle Love; <br>Yet, fallen with the World, untir'd by Age, <br>Scorning th'unthinking Crowd, thou quit'st the Stage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aphra+Behn">Aphra Behn</a><div class=q>
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(Worthy thy Fame) a grateful Offering? 
I, who by Toils of Sickness, am become 
Almost as near as thou art to a Tomb? 
While every soft, and every tender Strain 
Is ruffl'd, and ill-natur'd grown with Pain..."></div>
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