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Show • To thee 0 Fame, we now commit Her, and thefe loft remains of geiirom wit: I charge thee, deeply to enrol This glorious Name in thy immortal bcrol 5, Write ev'ry letter in large Text, And then to mak{ the luftre hold, Let it be done with pureft Gold, To da^le this Age, and ontfbine the next: Since not a Name mare1 bright than Hers, In this, or thy large Book appears. And thou impartial, ^powerful Grave, Thefe Reliqnes (Uhg her deathtefs Poems Jove ) Evnfrom devouring Timefecnre, May they ft ill reft from other mixture pure: Vnlefsfome dying Monarch (ball to try Whether Orinda, though her felf could dye^ Can ftill give others immortality '•> Think, if but l*idinher miraculous Tomb, As from the Prophets touch, new life from hers may come. James Tyrrell* M B E d m ' ^ To 4 To the Memory of the incomparable: Orinda, A Pindarick Ode. 1. A hong Adku to all that's bright, Noble, or brave, in Womanhfnd, To alt the wonders of their Wit, And Trophies of their mind j The glowing Heat of tti Holy Fire is gone, To tti Altar, whence 'twas handled, flown J There s nought an Earth, but Afhes left behind 5 Ere ftnce tti amazing found was fpred O R 1 N D A'JP Dead, „ Every foft and fragrant word, All that language could afford, Every high and lofty thing That's wont to fet the Soul on wing, No longer with this worthlefs World would ftay i Thus when the Death of the great P A N was told, Along the fhore tbe difmal tidings rolTd, The leffer Gods their Fanes forfookr Confounded with the mighty ftrofye, They could not over-live that Fatal day, Butfegtid, and groan d their gafping Oracles away\ 1. How rigid are the hows of Fate, And how fevcre that black Decree ? No fublnnary things is free, But all nmft enter tti Adamantine Gate : Sooner, or later fly all we come To Natures dark^etiring room , •• And yet 9tis pity, is it not«? The horned as the fool fhould dye, One full as low as t'other lye j Together Blended in tlye general lot, Diftingnifbt only front fhe commoti erond, By an hingd Cofftn, or m Holland fhroud^ Though Fame and Honor fipea\them nter fit loud', Al04 1 • t.- I |