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Show 26 <P O E M S. ^ i > : _ ' A N d why this. Vault and T o m b ? Alike w e muft Put off Diftinctton, and put on out Duft. Nor can the ftatelieft Fabrick help to fave From the corruptions, of a common Graven Nor for the Resurrection more prepare, Than if the Duft were ifcatter'd into Air. What then ? TO ambition's juft, fay fome, that we May^trjusjgerp^tuate our Memory. A h falfe vain task of Art! ah poor weak M a n! Whofe Monument does more than's Merit can : W h o by his Friends belt care and love s abus'd, And in his very Epitaph, accus'd : For did they not^fufpect his N a m e would fall, There woulcl not need an Epitaph at all. But after death too I would be alive, And fliall, if my Lucafia do, furvive. I quit thjefe pomps of Death, and am content, Having her heart to be m y Monument: Though ne'er Stone to me, 'twill Stone for m e prove, By the peculiar miracles of Love. There I'll Infcription have which no T o m b gives, Not, Here Orinda lies, \y\\t, Here fhe lives. Friendfiip in Embleme, or the Seal. To my deareji Lucafia. 1 • T H e Hearts thus intermixed fpeak A Love that no bold fhock can break y For joyn d and growing both, in one, None can be difturb'd alone. 1 That POEM S. That means a mutual Knowledge too; For what is't either heart can do, Which by its panting Centinel It does not to the other tell ? 3- That Friendfhip Hearts fo much refines, it nothing but it felf defigns : The hearts are free from lower ends, For each point to the other tends. 4- They flame, 'tis true, and feveral ways, But ftill thofe Flames do fo much raife, That while to either they incline, - They yet are noble and divine. 5# V*: From fmoke or hurt thofe Flames are free* From groflhefs or mortality : The Heart (like Mofes Bufh prefumed) W a r m d and enlightned,. not confumed. 6. The Compaffes that ftand abbve, fexprefs this great immortal Love \ For Friends, like them, can prove this true, They are, and yet they are not, two. |