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A poem occasion'd by the general peace by J.W. Gent.
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J. W., Gent.
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1697
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Wing W63; ESTC R10602
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A POEM Occasion'd by the General PEACE By J. W. Gent. Jam Fides Pax Honor Pudorque Priscus neglecta redire Virtus Audet apparetque beata pleno Copia Cornu Hor. Car. Sec. LONDON Printed for Robert Battersby at Staple-Inn-Gate near the Barrs in Holbourn 1698. A POEM Occasioned by the General Peace COuld to Virgil's loftiest Flights attain To sing the Heroe in immortal Strain Like Pindar with aspiring Fancy raise Past Human Reach above the endless Skies And sing of Gods and Heroes in his Lays In what great Numbers would I then rehearse In boundless Thought and never-dying Verse What mighty Deeds by Albion's Monarch done What Battels fought and early Trophies won Tell the whole World how at the rapid Boyne Undaunted He amid'st a Thousand Slain Through dang'rous Torrents at his Army's Head Like Caesar Conquer'd and like Caesar led Whilst fawning Waves and every guilty Stream Lay still as conscious 't was the Mighty HIM There Conq'ring crush'd at once a Springing War And sought new Laurels on a distant Shoar Pitch'd his Victorious Banners in the Feild Which the whole World with wondring Terrour fill'd Next Namure's Siege his Daring Courage try'd Namure which on her mighty Forts rely'd Built Strong by Art by Nature made secure From bold Attempts of a far greater Pow'r But when the Great NASSAV before it came NASSAV Recorded in the List of Fame How did the Town at his Approaches fear How bravely fought 'twixt Safety and Despair Till with assailing Foes encompass'd round They the true Conduct of our Heroe found Beheld Him wrapt in Clouds of circling Smoke Which from the Town in Thund'ring Language broke Whilst thro' his Camp the Bombs in louder strain Those lesser Murmurs Eccho'd back again Their num'rous Armies looking vainly on Saw how He fought and with what Praise he won Immortal Glory and th' amazing Town How did his Fame to farthest Regions move Swift as the Lightning from the Hand of Jove Become a Terrour to th' amazing Gaul As to Old Rome was the Young Conqu'ring Hannibal Why do I talk of Namure and the Boyne Are those his only noted Vict'ries won Let Steinkirk Landen Mons Athlone declare What Deeds He acted and what Toils He bore Deeds well ingrav'd and seen upon each Place Shall far out-live all Monumental Brass And will to future wondring Times be shown Whilst fleeting Years in endless Circles run And last till dull Eternity be gone Nor is his mighty Pow'r and large Command Barr'd to the scanty Limits of the Land But in his Fleets renown'd for Golden Trade To th' utmost Bounds of Natures-Self convey'd His Marine Power 's so greatly Fam'd for War That strike th' unknown like the Old World with Fear With Canvas Wings sail on the swelling Tide Dance o'er the Waves and on the Surges Ride Thro' the vast Plains they cut their Liquid Way To them each Land their willing Tributes pay The Sooty Indian when the Fleet arrives His richest Gems and dearest Presents gives The watry Nymphs to them their Corals bear Menander Swans and Tagus Golden Oar Neptune to them does silently submit And lays his Trident at the British Heroe's Feet Kings that have Rule beneath the Frozen Zone And perfect Strangers to th' All-seeing Sun Crawl from the Summit of the World 's great Frame To pay Respect to Conqu'ring NASSAV's Fame Thro' pathless Ways o'er the Cold Alpes they go And Mountains buried in Eternal Snow Cross Floods that rowl like Cataracts of Nile In vast Impetuous Torrents down the Hill Saw with amazing Pleasure ev'ry Town ' Gainst Gallick Troops by Albion's Forces won Then to Victorious WILLIAM's Camp repair And saw how Great the Heroe did appear All Stern and Raging like the God of War What pleasing Change did the new Sight create How warm their Brests with a Young Martial Heat Which thro' their glowing Veins diffus'dly ran And bade the Great NASSAV to Slaughter lead them on His Sight refreshing like a Morning Beam Adds Day to Night and a new Face to Time Makes Nature wanton in his ripening Rays And Belgia Drunk with indigested Joys Yet Britian pensive with continual Care Looks with Impatience to her Rival Shoar Fearful and Trembling at her Monarch's Stay Bids the dull Hours anticipate the Day With Sighs and Pray'rs she Courts the heedless Wind Speaks to the swelling Surges to be kind And waft him safe o'er vast Tempestuous Seas Crown'd with Eternal Victory and Peace Far from the dismal Noise of Angry War Within her longing Arms to rest for ever here But see He comes Triumphant o're the Main The Seas grow Calm the Heavens are all Serene The Nereids sporting on the Surges sit And Crowding Sea-Gods stop the hastning Fleet The Nymphs proclaim Victorious WILLIAM's Praise And Triton tells it to the list'ning Seas The Waves on gentle Steps move slowly on And grieve to lose his Royal Weight so soon Whil'st Thronging Subjects spread the spacious Shoar And with his Praises rend the patient Air From ev'ry Fort Discharged Cannons play No longer Dreadful sostest Sounds of Joy BRITANNIA rising from her Oozy Bed Where She in short and silent Slumbers laid Old ALBION saw with flowing Joys grown young Prepar'd to meet the Heroe with this Song WILLIAM thou mighty Off-spring of a God On us by Heavens Almighty Power bestow'd Heaven propitious to our sinking Isle T' appoint our happy Genius here to Rule When we regardless of our Danger lay Saw Forein Kings stretch Conquests ev'ry way And Tyger-like devour th'unguarded Prey But thy Victorious Arm their Troops subdu'd Thy Pow'rful Rays dispers'd their threatning Cloud Made GALLIA tremble at thy sure Success And Her proud King to humbly sue for Peace Peace in what distant Regions hast thou been Where so long Exil'd from our Sight hast lain EVROPE could give thee no secure Retreat Nor ALBION room to rest thy weary'd Feet Wert Thou to PARTHIA to the INDIES gone Sought'st Thou new Worlds unpeopled and unknown Ev'n there the Fruitful Seeds of jarring War Grow without Culture or the Tillers Care Did'st Thou not on the Heavens Great AXIS tread Whilst Fire and Sword did the whole World invade See Towns whose Spires once reach'd the Azure Sky Now low Intomb'd in their own Ashes lye The' effects of Rage and a Proud Gallick Enemy 'Till the Great WILLIAM to thy Aid was seen To lend his Warlike and all Conqu'ring Arm And Shield each Part of Thee from ev'ry Harm Whil'st to his ALBION's Ark He drew Thee safely in Say Welcom Peace by Antients thought Divine Say in what Words shall I thy Pow'r define Teach me thy blest Original to trace And prove thy Being from some Heavenly Race Thee whom the Chaos wrapt in gloomy Shade Thro' a long Chain of unknown Time obey'd Each stirring Atom in the diff'ring Heap Aw'd with thy Presence melted into Sleep No Rebel Seeds did the great Mass divide The smallest Part its own dear Rights injoy'd Thus whil'st the ALL in jumbled Order lay And pleas'd with disagreeing Harmony Beside thy Self it knew no other Deity But when the God of Nature spoke the Word A kinder Scene of a New World appear'd An Infant Sun did the large Globe Survey And Darkness fled before his Rising Day All things look'd then so Innocent and Young Birds undisturb'd on the green Branches sung And Silver Streams crept silently along The Happy Mortals in soft Slumbers laid Bless'd with a Beech-Tree's thick and growing Shade No Breast was troubled yet with biting Care No Mind was fearful of approaching War The Trumpets Clangor shook no tremb'ling Plain Nor were there Engines of Destruction seen They Food from Neighb'ring Bushes did receive And only eat what bounteous Nature gave None labour'd hard for a next Years Increase Yet soon grew rich in Honesty and Ease But the succeeding Ages brought to light Arms War and Bloodshed Rapine and Deceit Ambition Int'rest Discord crowded in And num'rous Ills quite chang'd the former Scene Which long o'er Man in various Humours reign'd At length in one great monstrous Body joyn'd Which with its Greatness did the World invade O'er-power'd Countries Towns in Ruins laid 'Till Great NASSAW the growing Ill withstood Destroy'd the Fiend and slew the Hellish Brood He the Britannick Conqu'ring Hercules From threatning Harms his Joyful Albion frees And with his Sword obtains the wish'd-for Peace Fly all the Zephyrs with unusual haste Touch on yon' Mountain on that farthest Coast There peaceful Branches from the Olive tear And to the Presence of your Monarch bear You Cupids too that Revel in his Ray And all around his shining Brightness play Fly to the Delphian Groves and quickly come With verdant Laurels laden richly home Strip every Branch from the Coy Blushing Maid And tell Her 't is for the New Horoe's Head But Oh! how vain must the Young Bard appear Whose flagging Wings can't reach so high a Sphere Who with unusual Boldness dares proclaim His uncouth Lays on so sublime a Theame Yet what dull Fancy could be longer still And no soft Pow'rs of Charming Muses feel When Europe's Fate the Great NASSAV is come From War and Slaughter Crown'd with Laurels Home New Thoughts untry'd my ruder Breast inspire And warming Zeal sets my whole Soul on Fire Yet in the bold Attempting of his Praise How am I hurri'd to some Erring Maze On Wings of lawless thronging Fancies tost And my whole Thoughts in the vast Perspective are lost FINIS