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A25236 An Account of the great and glorious actions of Mr. Walker, the Protestant governor, at the siege of London-derry 1689 (1689) Wing A295; ESTC R14386 1,194 1

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE Great and Glorious Actions OF Mr. Walker the Protestant Governor AT THE SIEGE OF LONDON-DERRY MAster of Arts and Arms Heav'ns double Champion Thou Who Preachest Truth 's great Cause and Fight'st it too Whose Thunder loud as Mark 's bold Lyon roars And whose Renown high as John's Eagle soars Heroick Gospeller whose Fame thus Crown'd At once the Organ and the Trumpet sound Anthems and Ecchoes both thy Trophies raise The Churches sost and Soldier 's rougher Praise So keen the Swift-wing'd Vengeance of thy Arm Thy Foes in Limbo pent thou plyedst so warm That poor Teague swears the Walls of London-Derry Are hotter than St. Patrick's Purgatory Nor do'st Thou only stand the Irish Rage With a whole Kingdom one poor Town engage Thy bold Defiance do's at once persue The Popish J s and Pagan Lewis too Their equal Scores both Teague and Monsieur pay Under thy Walls their Bones together lay Ireland and France so truckling the unstrung And broken Harp on mourning Willows hung And the French baffled Pride so forc'd to stoop That ev'n the languid Flour-de-Lisses droop Their glorious Exorcist so well thou'hast play'd The Romish Devils ne're were better laid Whil'st bragging Talbot at a distance raves And for his Brother Wolves howls o're their Graves Hearing how thy repeated Triumph sounds Lies sickning bleeding dying of their Wounds Thou second Xenophon greater Archimede By such a Chief a Band so valiant led Courage and Conduct so much thy Applause Thy Glory has no Equal but thy Cause Nor let the murmuring Sons of Mars repine To see the Envied Gown in Armor shine Learning and Wit from Arms what Plea dares bar The best and noblest Graduates in War When from Jove's Brain their own Minerva born The Martial Wreath's their Native Chaplet worn Learning so brave and bold where lies the Wonder Sprung from the Thunderer to weild the Thunder Let our Church muster all her Champion Sons Her Vshers S t 's and T n's The mighty Deeds by her Book Warriors done And all the Paper-Battles lost and won Rome's batter'd Gates and all her shatter'd Columns Petarr'd with Arguments and Bomb'd with Volumes Thy Glories those brisk Combatants outshine Whose Triumphs Mighty Seer must yield to thine Thy Pen of Steel the Churches best Disputer And thou the boldest Bellarmine Confuter Thou leading Levite Crown'd in Honours Field Great Judah's Lyon Impress of thy Shield Go on and raise thy single Name ev'n higher Than e're Rome's haughty Vicar durst aspire To what new Vanity would that Vaunter swell Cou'd his long Arrogance prove half so well His boasted Title the Successive Lord Of Peter's KEYS as thou of Peter's SWORD But thy Success why should we so admire For sure thy Cannons breathe no common Fire Methinks I see with an uplifted Hand The great Levitick Boanerges stand With thy own Altar Coal the Touch is given And carries with it ev'n a Bolt of Heav'n To the same Notes should thy just Praise be strung Which Israel's Worthy the great David sung David the Prophet and the Heroe too Whose conqu'ring Arm his Fam'd Ten Thousand slew Whil'st thou dost his Victorious Footsteps trace ' Gainst a more barbarous Philistine Race Now Dastard L to thy deathless Shame Hear thy bold Successor's lmmortal Fame That Guardian Hand that shall our Cause deliver His Glory Rising where Thine Sets for Ever FINIS Licensed June 3d. 1689. LONDON Printed for Langley Curtiss at Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Head near Fleet-bridge 1689.