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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 smooth and equal measures dance.

Whilft the dance lafts, how long foe'er it be,

My Mufick's voice fhall bear it company,

Till all gentle notes be drown'd
In the last trumpet's dreadful found.
COWLEY does to Jove belong,
Jove and COWLEY claim my fong.-
The Mufes did young COWLEY raise,
They ftole thee from thy nurse's arms,
Fed thee with facred love of praife,
And taught thee all their charms:
As if Apollo's felf had been thy fire,
They daily rock'd thee on his lyre.

VOL. II.

THE RESURRECTION.

VERSES TO COWLEY.

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 ftrong,
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 feaft of wit, and banquet of the mind:
While the fair tree, tranfplanted to the skies,
In verdure with th' Elysian 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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