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The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN
COMPLETE, PRO.M
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

COWLEY VOLUME III.

Envy at laft crawls forth from that dire throug
Of all the direfillt; her black locks hug long
Attired with rnrlingSerpents. Daridies Book the 19

Grand London. January 6th

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ABRAHAM COWLEY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

FROM THE TEXT OF DR. SPRAT, &c.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Begin the fong, and ftrike the living lyre!

Lo! how the Years to come, a num'rous and well-fitted quire!
All hand in hand do decently advance,

And to my fong with fmooth and equal measures dance.
Whilft the dance lats, how long foe'er it be,

My Mufick's voice fhali bear it company,

Till all gentle notes be drown'd
In the lat trumpet's dreadful found.

COWLEY does to Jove belong,
Jove and COWLEY claim my fong.-
The Mufes did young COWLEY raife,
They tote thee from thy nurse's arms,
Fed thee with facred love of prajfe,
And taught thee all their chams:
As if Apollo's felf had been thy fireş
They daily rock'd thee on his lyse.

THE RESURRECTION.

VERSES TO COWLEY.,

VOL. III.

Bell's fecond edition.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.

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Alone exempted from the common fate,
The forward COWLEY held a lafting date:
For Envy's blaft, and pow'rful Time, too strong,
He bloffom'd early, and he flourish'd long:
In whom the double miracle was feen,
Ripe in his fpring, and in his autumn green.
With us he left his gen'rous fruit behind,
The feast of wit, and banquet of the mind:
While the fair tree, tranfplanted to the fkies,
In verdure with th' Elyfian garden vies,
The pride of earth before, and now of Paradise.

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VER. TO MEM OF COWLEY,

EDINBURG:

At the Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS,
Anno 1784.

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