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Miscellaneous Poems.

As well he mayThe Billows of the Ocean stay.

While Churchill, like a driving Wind,

Or high Spring-Tide, pursues behind,

And with redoubled Speed urges their forward Way.

IX.

Nor less, Eucenius, thy important Case,

Thou second Thunder bolt of War !

Partner in Danger and in Fame ;

With Marlborouch’s, the Winds shall bearTo distant Colonies, thy conqu’ring Name.

Nor shall my Muse forget to singFrom Harmony what Blessings spring :•

To tell how Death did enviously repine,

To see a Friendship so divine ;

When in a Ball’s destroying Shape she past,

And mark’d thy threaten’d Brow at lastBut durst not touch-that sacred Brain,

Where the Concerns of Europe reign ;

For strait she bow’d her ghastly Head ;

She saw the Mark of Heav’n, and fled,

As cruel Brennus once insulting Gaul,

When.he, at Alliat fatal Flood,

Had fill’d the Plains with Roman Blood,

With conscious Awe forsook the Capitol,

Where Jove, Revenger of Profanestess, stood..

X.

But where the Good and Brave command,

What Capitol, what Castle can withstand ?

Virtue, as well as Gold, can passThro’ Walls of Stone, and Tow’rs of Brass,Lisle, like a Mistress, had been courted long,

And always yielded to the Bold and Youug ;

The fairest Progeny of Vauban s Art,

’Till Savoy’s warlik Prince withstoodHer frowning Thunders, and thro’ Seas of BloodTore the bri ght Darling from th’ old Tyrant’s Heart,

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