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Occasioned by the Death of the Right Hon Joseph Addison Esq	A
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Tu nunc eris alter ab illo	B
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VIRG	A
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O long with me in Oxford groves confin'd	C
In social arts and sacred friendship join'd	D
Fair Isis' sorrow and fair Isis' boast	E
Lost from her side but fortunately lost	F
Thy wonted aid my dear companion bring	A
And teach me thy departed friend to sing	A
A darling theme once powerful to inspire	G
And now to melt the muses' mournful choir	H
Now and now first we freely dare commend	I
His modest worth nor shall our praise offend	I
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Early he bloom'd amid the learned train	J
And ravish'd Isis listen'd to his strain	J
See see she cried old Maro's muse appears	K
Wak'd from her slumber of two thousand years	K
Her finish'd charms to Addison she brings	L
Thinks in his thought and in his numbers sings	L
All read transported his pure classic page	M
Read and forget their climate and their age	M
The state when now his rising fame was known	N
Th' unrival'd genius challeng'd for her own	N
Nor would that one for scenes for action strong	A
Should let a life evaporate in song	A
As health and strength the brightest charms dispense	O
Wit is the blossom of the soundest sense	O
Yet few how few with lofty thoughts inspir'd	P
With quickness pointed and with rapture fir'd	P
In conscious pride their own importance find	C
Blind to themselves as the hard world is blind	C
Wit they esteem a gay but worthless power	H
The slight amusement of a leisure hour	H
Unmindful that conceal'd from vulgar eyes	Q
Majestic wisdom wears the bright disguise	Q
Poor Dido fondled thus with idle joy	R
Dread Cupid lurking in the Trojan boy	R
Lightly she toy'd and trifled with his charms	S
And knew not that a god was in her arms	S
Who greatest excellence of thought could boast	E
In action too have been distinguish'd most	E
This Sommers knew and Addison sent forth	T
From the malignant regions of the north	T
To be matur'd in more indulgent skies	Q
Where all the vigour of the soul can rise	Q
Thro' warmer veins where sprightlier spirits run	U
And sense enliven'd sparkles in the sun	U
With secret pain the prudent patriot gave	V
The hopes of Britain to the rolling wave	V
Anxious the charge to all the stars resign'd	C
And plac'd a confidence in sea and wind	C
Ausonia soon receiv'd her wondering guest	W
And equal wonder in her turn confess'd	W
To see her fervours rival'd by the pole	B
Her lustre beaming from a northern soul	B
In like surprise was her neas lost	F
To find his picture grace a foreign coast	E
Now the wide field of Europe he surveys	X
Compares her kings her thrones and empires weighs	X
In ripen'd judgment and consummate thought	Y
Great work by Nassau's favour cheaply bought	Z
He now returns to Britain a support	A2
Wise in her senate graceful in her court	A2
And when the public welfare would permit	B2
The source of learning and the soul of wit	B2
O Warwick whom the muse is fond to name	C2
And kindles conscious of her future theme	D2
O Warwick by divine contagion bright	E2
How early didst thou catch his radiant light	E2
By him inspir'd how shine before thy time	F2
And leave thy years and leap into thy prime	F2
On some warm bank thus fortunately born	G2
A rose bud opens to a summer's morn	G2
Full blown ere noon her fragrant pride displays	X
And shows th' abundance of her purple rays	X
Wit as her bays was once a barren tree	H2
We now surpris'd her fruitful branches see	H2
Or orange like till his auspicious time	F2
It grew indeed but shiver'd in our clime	F2
He first the plant to richer gardens led	I2
And fix'd indulgent in a warmer bed	I2
The nation pleas'd enjoys the rich produce	J2
And gathers from her ornament her use	J2
When loose from public cares the grove he sought	Y
And fill'd the leisure interval with thought	Y
The various labours of his easy page	M
A chance amusement polish'd half an age	M
Beyond this truth old bards could scarce invent	K2
Who durst to frame a world by accident	L2
What he has sung how early and how well	B
The Thames shall boast and Roman Tiber tell	B
A glory more sublime remains in store	M2
Since such his talents that he sung no more	M2
No fuller proof of power th' Almighty gave	V
Making the sea than curbing her proud wave	V
Nought can the genius of his works transcend	I
But their fair purpose and important end	I
To rouse the war for injur'd Europe's laws	N2
To steel the patriot in great Brunswick's cause	O2
With virtue's charms to kindle sacred love	P2
Or paint th' eternal bowers of bliss above	P2
Where hadst thou room great author where to roll	B
The mighty theme of an immortal soul	B
Through paths unknown unbeaten whence were brought	Y
Thy proofs so strong for immaterial thought	Y
One let me join all other may excel	B
How could a mortal essence think so well	B
But why so large in the great writer's praise	X
More lofty subjects should my numbers raise	X
In him illustrious rivalry contend	I
The statesman patriot Christian and the friend	I
His glory such it borders on disgrace	Q2
To say he sung the best of human race	Q2
In joy once join'd in sorrow now for years	K
Partner in grief and brother of my tears	R2
Tickell accept this verse thy mournful due	S2
Thou further shalt the sacred theme pursue	S2
And as thy strain describes the matchless man	T2
Thy life shall second what thy muse began	T2
Though sweet the numbers though a fire divine	U2
Dart through the whole and burn in every line	U2
Who strives not for that excellence he draws	N2
Is stain'd by fame and suffers from applause	N2
But haste to thy illustrious task prepare	V2
The noble work well trusted to thy care	V2
The gift bequeath'd by Addison's command	W2
To Craggs made sacred by his dying hand	W2
Collect the labours join the various rays	X
The scatter'd light in one united blaze	X
Then bear to him so true so truly lov'd	X2
In life distinguished and in death approv'd	Y2
Th' immortal legacy He hangs awhile	B
In generous anguish o'er the glorious pile	B
With anxious pleasure the known page reviews	Z2
And the dear pledge with falling tears bedews	Z2
What though thy tears pour'd o'er thy godlike friend	I
Thy other cares for Britain's weal suspend	I
Think not O patriot while thy eyes o'erflow	B
Those cares suspended for a private woe	A3
Thy love to him is to thy country shown	N
He mourns for her who mourns for Addison	U

Edward Young

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