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Show I Not able to endure applanfe, the fall, Giddy with praife, their praifes Funeral. But you, Orinda, arefo unconcern d, As if when you, another we commend. Thus, as the Sun, you, in your Courfe, fbine on> tVnmovid with all our admiration . Flying above the praife you fbun, we fee Wit is ft ill higher by humility. Philo-Philipps ' 11 »i l i • i> im4*m+t>im •••> I ll»i o %% I * T' *• T o the memory of the Excellent Orinda. i. FOrgive, bright Saint aVot'ry, who No mifflve Orders has to fbowy Nor does a call to infpiration owe : Tet rudely dares intrude among This facred, and infpired throng ; Where looking round me, evry one I feei Is afworn Priefl of Phoebus, or of thee, Frigive this forward walfor things divine, If Ifirange fire do offer at thy Shrine .< Since the pure Incenfe, and the Gum We fend up to the Powrs above, (If with devotion givn, and love) Smells Jweet, and does alike accepted prove, As if from golden Cenfors it did come j Though we the pious tribute pay In fome rude veffel made of common clay. i. What by Pindaricks can be done, Since the great Pindar's greater * Son *Mr.A.Cowiey. (By ev'ry Grace adorn'd, and ev'ry Mufe infpir'd) From th> ungrateful World, to hinder Heavens retird: He, and Orinda from us gone What Name, ^e theirs, (hall we now call upon ? Whether her Virtue, or her Wit We chnfe for our eternal Theme, What hand can draw the perfeSt Scheme ? None but her felf could fuch high fubjetfs fit, We yield, with fhame we yield To Death and Her the field : For were not Nature part tail to us Men We Worlds great Order had inverted been ; Ujadfbefuch Souls placd in all Women-hind, Givn em ike wit not with like goodnefs join'd, Our vaffall Sex to hers had homage paid; Warn* had rnU the World, and wea^r Man obeyd. 3* To |