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Bending beneath all Sufferings — But Thy Own! In Vain — My feeble Wing disclaims the lofty Flight Conscious of Strength inferior. Ha! Why droops The Lilly of the Field, while double Pollen New die’s her languid Head? Why starts the Rose and sends fresh Crimson forth through all her Leaves Vainly Ye strive to emulate Her Form, Tho’ Heaven its Magazines of silver’d Rain Sent to Thy Aid, O Lilly. Tho’, O Rose, The Rainbow’s Blush were added to Thy Own. The Dog 131 Thee, Sister, gladly would my Verse provoke, Nor other Meed expect I, than to wake Thy Strain melodious; while without or Rhyme Or haply Reason, unexperienc’d Lays, And unapprov’d, unless when sung by Thee, Audacious I attempt, and rise to sing A Dog; if Dog aright he may be term’d, Who scarcely more in Shape, I ween, resembles The vulgar barking Animals on Earth, Than Sirius or than Procyon, heav’nly Stars. Say first, whoe’er can say, what Sire begot, What Clime produced, this admirable Form, Uncouth, Prodigious; Lately curst, but now Thrice blest! the Subject of Heroick Song? 131 Samuel Wesley Jr., ms.; cf. Poems on Several Occasions (London: S. Birt, 1736), 148. 79
Or Dutch low-built and squat, or slimmer Dane, Four-footed Wit, with roguy Visage sly: Or nobler Kinds, too near, alas! extinct, The Irish Greyhound or the English Mastiff; Or fav’rite Brood of Charles, discerning King, To spy Perfection or in Beast or Man! Or rather else from Parentage unknown, Like ancient Heroes sprung from Mother Earth, The general Mother Earth, without a Sire? For Sires beget their Like, and propagate Their Kinds; but like to This was never found. His Colours strange, what mortal Painter’s Hand. With all his Lights and Shadings can express? Inexplicably grisly! But his Tail, Oh! had’st Thou seen his Tail, the matchless Shape Th’ identick Shape thy Memory would retain, Engraven in eternal Characters! 132 A Line like which not Archimedes old In yielding Sand e’er trac’d, nor greater Skill Of modern Newton e’er has yet on Slate ’Midst Figures Curve or Rectilinear drawn: Transverse, unjointed from the Sacred Bone, It stood, as nought of kindred to the Parts Posterior whence it grew, or rather seem’d To adhere, not native there. So Misseltoe Seems only grafted on its parent Oak. Nor uniform the Girth; part dangling lithe, Part horizontal, stiff; tho’ not so stiff 132 Omits next line: “While Memory holds its Empire in the Brain,” 80
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Editorial Introduction: JOHN WESLEY
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To guide her airy flights along; Go
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Dublin Miscellany 8 (On a Lady Thro
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On Seeing a Friends Picture. By the
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[To Stella] 17 [p.] 230 Stella, whe
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Once from my Window as I cast mine
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I, sacred Wisdom, am more precious
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Thou too canst boast thy Lawns, and
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To distant Objects stretch my lengt
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E’er Motion, Time, or Entity bega
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How solid Waves to glassy Mountains
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The Hive (Vol. 2) 39 [Untitled] 40
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With him more Content I had found T
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[Untitled] 46 [p.] 268 Cosmelia’s
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Page 63 and 64: On the Death of ----- 109 Here lies
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Page 71 and 72: Cleaveland122 Give me a woman made
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Page 85 and 86: An Instrument I take, which not exc
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Page 95 and 96: Come Thou chaste Maid, here ever le
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Of Sov’reign force to soften Care
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A F—. 208 Gentlest Blast of ill C
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Vol. 6 Alcidor. By a Lady 212 While
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January and May: or The Merchant’
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He said; the Rest in diff’rent Pa
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order. Still one by one, in swift s
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Were it by forceful Destiny decreed
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Blind as He was, not doubting all w
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Help, dearest Lord, and save at onc
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Epitaph on M. W. 233 In even Scale,
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Which Power Almighty would in vain
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Tho’ his by Nature’s Bonds, by
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May some brave Youth with Well-tim
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Can scarce the distant azure Bounds
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This World so Fair, of Joy the brig
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Nor Monuments alone, and Burial Ear
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The Leaves that tremble in the Shad
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There all the Clouds condensed, Two
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My Light, my Life, my God, my Savio
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Th’ Almighty Judge bends forward
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“Never! Where falls the Soul at t
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But I attempt the wondrous Height i
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Enter the Sacred Temple of thy Brea
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Life 292 I made a Posie, while the
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Providence 297 O sacred Providence,
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When yet some Places could no Moist
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Mr. Randolph “On His own Picture
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“The Pulley” 176 “Submission
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