On The Death Of Lord Hastings.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Must noble Hastings immaturely die	A
The honour of his ancient family	B
Beauty and learning thus together meet	C
To bring a winding for a wedding sheet	C
Must Virtue prove Death's harbinger must she	B
With him expiring feel mortality	B
Is death Sin's wages Grace's now shall Art	D
Make us more learned only to depart	D
If merit be disease if virtue death	E
To be good not to be who'd then bequeath	F
Himself to discipline who'd not esteem	G
Labour a crime study self murder deem	G
Our noble youth now have pretence to be	B
Dunces securely ignorant healthfully	B
Rare linguist whose worth speaks itself whose praise	H
Though not his own all tongues besides do raise	H
Than whom great Alexander may seem less	I
Who conquer'd men but not their languages	J
In his mouth nations spake his tongue might be	B
Interpreter to Greece France Italy	B
His native soil was the four parts o' the Earth	K
All Europe was too narrow for his birth	K
A young apostle and with reverence may	L
I speak it inspired with gift of tongues as they	L
Nature gave him a child what men in vain	M
Oft strive by art though further'd to obtain	M
His body was an orb his sublime soul	B
Did move on Virtue's and on Learning's pole	B
Whose regular motions better to our view	N
Than Archimedes sphere the Heavens did show	O
Graces and virtues languages and arts	P
Beauty and learning fill'd up all the parts	P
Heaven's gifts which do like falling stars appear	Q
Scatter'd in others all as in their sphere	Q
Were fix'd conglobate in his soul and thence	R
Shone through his body with sweet influence	S
Letting their glories so on each limb fall	B
The whole frame render'd was celestial	B
Come learned Ptolemy and trial make	T
If thou this hero's altitude canst take	T
But that transcends thy skill thrice happy all	B
Could we but prove thus astronomical	B
Lived Tycho now struck with this ray which shone	U
More bright i' the morn than others' beam at noon	V
He'd take his astrolabe and seek out here	W
What new star 'twas did gild our hemisphere	Q
Replenish'd then with such rare gifts as these	X
Where was room left for such a foul disease	X
The nation's sin hath drawn that veil which shrouds	Y
Our day spring in so sad benighting clouds	Y
Heaven would no longer trust its pledge but thus	Z
Recall'd it rapt its Ganymede from us	Z
Was there no milder way but the small pox	A2
The very filthiness of Pandora's box	A2
So many spots like n ves on Venus' soil	B
One jewel set off with so many a foil	B
Blisters with pride swell'd which through's flesh did sprout	B2
Like rose buds stuck i' th' lily skin about	B2
Each little pimple had a tear in it	C2
To wail the fault its rising did commit	C2
Which rebel like with its own lord at strife	D2
Thus made an insurrection 'gainst his life	D2
Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin	E2
The cabinet of a richer soul within	E2
No comet need foretell his change drew on	F2
Whose corpse might seem a constellation	G2
Oh had he died of old how great a strife	D2
Had been who from his death should draw their life	D2
Who should by one rich draught become whate'er	H2
Seneca Cato Numa C sar were	H2
Learn'd virtuous pious great and have by this	I2
An universal metempsychosis	I2
Must all these aged sires in one funeral	B
Expire all die in one so young so small	B
Who had he lived his life out his great fame	J2
Had swoln 'bove any Greek or Roman name	J2
But hasty Winter with one blast hath brought	K2
The hopes of Autumn Summer Spring to nought	K2
Thus fades the oak i' the sprig i' the blade the corn	L2
Thus without young this Phoenix dies new born	L2
Must then old three legg'd graybeards with their gout	K2
Catarrhs rheums aches live three long ages out	K2
Time's offals only fit for the hospital	B
Or to hang antiquaries' rooms withal	B
Must drunkards lechers spent with sinning live	M2
With such helps as broths possets physic give	N2
None live but such as should die shall we meet	K2
With none but ghostly fathers in the street	K2
Grief makes me rail sorrow will force its way	L
And showers of tears tempestuous sighs best lay	L
The tongue may fail but overflowing eyes	I2
Will weep out lasting streams of elegies	I2
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But thou O virgin widow left alone	U
Now thy beloved heaven ravish'd spouse is gone	O2
Whose skilful sire in vain strove to apply	B
Medicines when thy balm was no remedy	K2
With greater than Platonic love O wed	K2
His soul though not his body to thy bed	K2
Let that make thee a mother bring thou forth	P2
The ideas of his virtue knowledge worth	K
Transcribe the original in new copies give	N2
Hastings o' the better part so shall he live	M2
In's nobler half and the great grandsire be	K2
Of an heroic divine progeny	K2
An issue which to eternity shall last	K2
Yet but the irradiations which he cast	K2
Erect no mausoleums for his best	K2
Monument is his spouse's marble breast	K2

John Dryden

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