353 soon as the sun's reviving ray shall warm the northern gale; and Zephyrs mild their wing display When Time upon thine aged brow Quick summer flies, and autumn's suns, nor robe, nor garland deck'd with flowers, What youth on us but once bestows, age once shall snatch away: but Fame can stop the fatal blows, Long shall he live, whose bright career all else flies with the fleeting year, but Fame can never die. THE SAME W. HERBERT T would less vex distressed man It would less vex same pace, ran to ruin him, as he did rise; Then leave (by wild Impatience driven, 354 leave an unmanly, weak complaint H. VAUGHAN THE EXODUS OF THE ISRAELITES WHEN Israel was from bondage led, WHE led by th' Almighty's hand from out a foreign land, the great sea beheld and fled. As men pursu’d, when that fear past they find, the sacred army went, the waves afar stood up to gaze, and their own rocks did represent, solid as waters are above the firmament. Old Jordan's waters to their spring start back with sudden fright; the spring amazed at sight, asks what news from sea they bring. The mountains shook, and to the mountain's side when they ought dreadful spy, run trembling to their helpless dams, were glad for their excuse to see the hills to fly. A. COWLEY 355 PANEGYRIC ON THE HIGH PRIEST SIMON, SON OF ONIAS H in his coming out of the sanctuary! OW was he honoured in the midst of the people He was as the morning star in the midst of the cloud, and as the moon at the full; as the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, and as the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds: and as the flower of roses in the spring of the year, as lilies by the rivers of waters, 356 and as the branches of the frankincense tree in summer: as fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessel of gold set with precious stones, as a fair olive-tree, budding forth fruit, and as a cypress which groweth up to the clouds. and was clothed with the perfection of glory, he made the garment of holiness honourable. and as palm trees compassed they him round about. ECCLESIASTICUS MUTABILITY HE flower that smiles to-day THE to-morrow dies; all that we wish to stay tempts and then flies: what is this world's delight? Virtue, how frail it is! friendship too rare! Love, how it sells poor bliss for proud despair! but we, though soon they fall, which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright, whilst flowers are gay, whilst eyes that change ere night whilst yet the calm hours creep, P. B. SHELLEY SUMMER'S DEPARTURE AND RETURN FARE AREWELL! on wings of sombre stain, thou fliest; but thou wilt come again F. S. II. II 357 358 spring at thy approach will sprout Nature shall thrill with new delight, and Time's relumined river run warm as young blood, and dazzling bright 'TIS THE TRUE KING IS not wealth that makes a king, nor a brow that's bound with gold, that mine conceals or harvest bears, What shall move his placid might? to snatch the shivering waves about, T. HOOD 359 COMPLAINT ON ENGLAND'S MISERIES AH, H, happy Isle, how art thou chang'd and curst, when Peace, which had forsook the world around, and a secure retirement chose wherein to build her halcyon nest; no wind durst stir abroad the air to discompose. When all the riches of the globe beside a constant tribute paid to thee; when all the liquid world was one extended Thames. Unhappy Isle! no ship of thine at sea was ever tossed and torn like thee: thy naked hulk loose on the waves does beat, to lay the compass quite aside? and rather take the winds than heavens to be their guide? 360 A. COWLEY ADVERSITY THE SCHOOL OF HEROISM O, when the wisest poets seek a picture of heroic worth, set forth (the pious Trojan or the prudent Greek) they choose some comely Prince of heavenly birth, who strives t' usurp the gods' forbidden seat); that cannot without joy be eat; but in the cold of want and storms of adverse chance they harden his young virtue by degrees; the beauteous drop first into ice does freeze, |