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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew	A
Excellent in the Two Sister arts of Poesy and Painting	B
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Thou youngest Virgin Daughter of the skies	C
Made in the last promotion of the blest	D
Whose palms new plucked from Paradise	E
In spreading branches more sublimely rise	C
Rich with immortal green above the rest	D
Whether adopted to some neighbouring star	A
Thou roll'st above us in thy wand'ring race	F
Or in procession fixed and regular	A
Moved with the heavens' majestic pace	F
Or called to more superior bliss	G
Thou tread'st with seraphims the vast abyss	G
Whatever happy region be thy place	F
Cease thy celestial song a little space	F
Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine	H
Since Heaven's eternal year is thine	H
Hear then a mortal muse thy praise rehearse	I
In no ignoble verse	I
But such as thy own voice did practise here	A
When thy first fruits of poesie were given	J
To make thyself a welcome inmate there	A
While yet a young probationer	A
And candidate of Heaven	J
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If by traduction came thy mind	K
Our wonder is the less to find	K
A soul so charming from a stock so good	L
Thy father was transfused into thy blood	M
So wert thou born into the tuneful strain	N
An early rich and inexhausted vein	N
But if thy pre existing soul	O
Was formed at first with myriads more	A
It did through all the mighty poets roll	O
Who Greek or Latin laurels wore	A
And was that Sappho last which once it was before	A
If so then cease thy flight O Heav'n born mind	K
Thou hast no dross to purge from thy rich ore	A
Nor can thy soul a fairer mansion find	K
Than was the beauteous frame she left behind	K
Return to fill or mend the choir of thy celestial kind	K
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May we presume to say that at thy birth	P
New joy was sprung in Heav'n as well as here on earth	P
For sure the milder planets did combine	H
On thy auspicious horoscope to shine	H
And ev'n the most malicious were in trine	H
Thy brother angels at thy birth	P
Strung each his lyre and tuned it high	Q
That all the people of the sky	Q
Might know a poetess was born on earth	P
And then if ever mortal ears	R
Had heard the music of the spheres	R
And if no clust'ring swarm of bees	S
On thy sweet mouth distilled their golden dew	T
'Twas that such vulgar miracles	U
Heav'n had not leisure to renew	T
For all the blest fraternity of love	V
Solemnized there thy birth and kept thy holyday above	V
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O gracious God how far have we	W
Profaned thy Heav'nly gift of poesy	U
Made prostitute and profligate the Muse	U
Debased to each obscene and impious use	U
Whose harmony was first ordained above	V
For tongues of angels and for hymns of love	V
Oh wretched we why were we hurried down	X
This lubrique and adult'rate age	Y
Nay added fat pollutions of our own	Z
T' increase the steaming ordures of the stage	Y
What can we say t' excuse our second fall	A2
Let this thy vestal Heav'n atone for all	A2
Her Arethusian stream remains unsoiled	T
Unmixed with foreign filth and undefiled	T
Her wit was more than man her innocence a child	T
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Art she had none yet wanted none	J
For nature did that want supply	Q
So rich in treasures of her own	Z
She might our boasted stores defy	Q
Such noble vigour did her verse adorn	B2
That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born	B2
Her morals too were in her bosom bred	T
By great examples daily fed	T
What in the best of books her father's life she read	T
And to be read herself she need not fear	A
Each test and ev'ry light her muse will bear	A
Though Epictetus with his lamp were there	A
Ev'n love for love sometimes her muse expressed	T
Was but a lambent flame which played about her breast	T
Light as the vapours of a morning dream	C2
So cold herself while she such warmth expressed	T
'Twas Cupid bathing in Diana's stream	C2
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Born to the spacious empire of the Nine	H
One would have thought she should have been content	T
To manage well that mighty government	T
But what can young ambitious souls confine	H
To the next realm she stretched her sway	D2
For painture near adjoining lay	D2
A plenteous province and alluring prey	D2
A chamber of dependences was framed	T
As conquerers will never want pretence	U
When armed to justify th' offence	U
And the whole fief in right of poetry she claimed	T
The country open lay without defence	U
For poets frequent inroads there had made	T
And perfectly could represent	T
The shape the face with ev'ry lineament	T
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And all the large domains which the dumb sister swayed	T
All bowed beneath her government	T
Received in triumph wheresoe'er she went	T
Her pencil drew whate'er her soul designed	T
And oft the happy draught surpassed the image in her mind	T
The sylvan scenes of herds and flocks	U
And fruitful plains and barren rocks	U
Of shallow brooks that flowed so clear	A
The bottom did the top appear	A
Of deeper too and ampler floods	U
Which as in mirrors showed the woods	U
Of lofty trees with sacred shades	U
And perspectives of pleasant glades	U
Where nymphs of brightest form appear	A
And shaggy satyrs standing near	A
Which them at once admire and fear	A
The ruins too of some majestic piece	U
Boasting the pow'r of ancient Rome or Greece	U
Whose statues friezes columns broken lie	Q
And though defaced the wonder of the eye	Q
What nature art bold fiction e'er durst frame	E2
Her forming hand gave feature to the name	E2
So strange a concourse ne'er was seen before	A
But when the peopled ark the whole creation bore	A
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The scene then changed with bold erected look	F2
Our martial king the sight with rev'rence strook	F2
For not content t' express his outward part	T
Her hand called out the image of his heart	T
His warlike mind his soul devoid of fear	A
His high designing thoughts were figured there	A
As when by magic ghosts are made appear	A
Our phoenix Queen was portrayed too so bright	T
Beauty alone could beauty take so right	T
Her dress her shape her matchless grace	U
Were all observed as well as heavenly face	U
With such a peerless majesty she stands	U
As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands	U
Before a train of heroines was seen	G2
In beauty foremost as in rank the Queen	G2
Thus nothing to her genius was denied	T
But like a ball of fire the farther thrown	Z
Still with a greater blaze she shone	Z
And her bright soul broke out on ev'ry side	T
What next she had designed Heaven only knows	U
To such immod'rate growth her conquest rose	U
That Fate alone its progress could oppose	U
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Now all those charms that blooming grace	U
That well proportioned shape and beauteous face	U
Shall never more be seen by mortal eyes	U
In earth the much lamented virgin lies	U
Not wit nor piety could Fate prevent	T
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Nor was the cruel destiny content	T
To finish all the murder at a blow	H2
To sweep at once her life and beauty too	T
But like a hardened felon took a pride	T
To work more mischievously slow	H2
And plundered first and then destroyed	T
O double sacrilege on things divine	H
To rob the relic and deface the shrine	H
But thus Orinda died	T
Heaven by the same disease did both translate	T
As equal were their souls so equal was their fate	T
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Meantime her warlike brother on the seas	U
His waving streamers to the winds displays	U
And vows for his return with vain devotion pays	U
Ah gen'rous youth that wish forbear	A
The winds too soon will waft thee here	A
Slack all thy sails and fear to come	I2
Alas thou know'st not thou art wrecked at home	J2
No more shalt thou behold thy sister's face	U
Thou hast already had her last embrace	U
But look aloft and if thou kenn'st from far	A
Among the Pleiads a new kindled star	A
If any sparkles than the rest more bright	T
'Tis she that shines in that propitious light	T
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When in mid air the golden trump shall sound	T
To raise the nations underground	T
When in the valley of Jehosaphat	T
The judging God shall close the book of Fate	T
And there the last assizes keep	K2
For those who wake and those who sleep	K2
When rattling bones together fly	Q
From the four corners of the sky	Q
When sinews o'er the skeletons are spread	T
Those clothed with flesh and life inspires the dead	T
The sacred poets first shall hear the sound	T
And foremost from the tomb shall bound	T
For they are covered with the lightest ground	T
And straight with in born	B2