Miscellaneous Poems, 103

Where ev’ry Day new Conquers should produce,Labour for Envy and a Muse :

Where, with her rattling Trumpet’s Sound,.

Fame should (hake the Hills around ;

Should tell how Webb, nigh woody Wynendak,

Argu’d each Inch of that important Ground.

So much in Vertue’s ScaleTrue Valour Numbers can out do,

And Thousands are but Cyphers to a Fe.v.

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Honour, with open Arms,, receives at lastThe Heroes who thro’ Vertue’s Temple past ;

And Ihow’rs down. Laurels from Above,

On those whom Heav’n and Anna love.

And some, not sparingly, st.e throwsFor the young Eagles, who could tryThe Faith and Judgment of the Sky,

And dare the Sun with steady Eye,

For Hantrvers and Pr up a Brows,p.ugenes in Bloom, and future Marlborougls.

Ty Hanover, Branfwiras second Grace,

Descendant from a long Imperial Race,

The Muft directs an unaffected Flight,

And prophesies, from so serene a Morn,

To what clear Glories he is born.

When blazing with a full Me.tidir. y; Light,

He (hall the British Hemisphere adorn :

When Mars (hall lay his bats er’d Target down,

And he (since Death will never spareThe Good, the Pious, and the Fair)

In his ripe Harvest of Renown,

Shall after his Great-Father sit,

(If Heav’n so long a Life permit)

And having fwell’d the flowing TideOf Fame, which he in Arms (hall get,

The Purchase of an honest Sweat,

Shall safe in stormy Seas Britannia's Vellel guide.

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