t)5 Miscellaneous Poe m s.

■Can faithful Registers, or Rhyme,

In charming Eloquence, or sprightly Wit,

The Wonders of her Reign transmitTo th’unborn Children of succeeding Time?

Can Painter 's Oil, or Statuary's Art,

Eternity to her impart ?

No! titled Statues are but empty Things,

Inscrib’d lo Royal Vanity,

The Sacrifice of FlatteryTo lawless Nero's, or Bourbonian Kings.

True Vertue to her kindred Stars aspires,

Does ail our Pomp of Stone and Verse surpass,

And mingling with Etherial Fires,

No useless Ornament requires,

From Speaking Colours, or from Breathing Brass,

II.

Greatest of Princes! where the wand’ring SunDoes o’er Earth’s habitable Regions roll,

From th’ Eajlem Barriers to the Weftern Goal,

And fees thy Race of Glory runWith Swiftness equal to his own.

Thee on the Banks of Flandrian Scaldis singsThe jocund Swain, releas’d from Gallic Fear :

The Englijb Voice unus’d to hear,

Thee the repeating Banks, Thee ev’ry Valley rings.The Gaul, untaught to bear the FlamesOf those whd drink the Maefe or “Thames ,

From the Britamick Valour sties,

No longer able to withstandThe Thunderbolt launch’d by a Female Hand,

Or Light’ning darted from her Eyes.

III.

What treble Ruin pious Anna bringsOn false EleSars, perjur’d Kings,

Let the twice fugitive Bavarian tell;

Who, from his airy Hope of better State,

By Lust of Sway, irregularly Great,

Like an Apostate Angel fell:

Why