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A53350 On the death of Mr. Matthew Pool anagram, Matthew Pool, O the lamp out! 1679 (1679) Wing O305A; ESTC R32319 542 1

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ON THE DEATH OF MR. MATTHEW POOL ANAGRAM MATTHEW POOL O the LAMP Out OUR LAMP is out Needs must we mourners be Darkness is Natures Mourning Livery When Sun sets Lamp a while prolongs the Day And on that hasting light Embargo's lays This Lamp was sent the Evening to clear Of the declining World but now I fear Its Courfeu rings its sure dead time of Night When Death like Bell-Man crys Put out your light A Lamp indeed well may Men stile him so He spent himself in giving Light to you For whilst with restless Wit the Criticks vast Conrracting he in lesser moulds doth cast And yet illustrates making all confess Divinity grows more by being less As light of Sun contract'd in Burning-Glass Doth hotter grow and brighter than it was Death takes advantage at oppressed Nature And proves at last the great abbreviator One Work he wholly finish'd nor much less A Second when Death stopt the teeming Press Ask not his Age then Reader for 't is clear This Learned Man dy'd in his Critick Year Thus our bright Lamp expir'd yet left behind A Work whose Beams through Christendom hath shin'd Each wise Expositor a Star is nam'd But here they are in Constellations fram'd Clusters of light combin'd Heavens milky way's But a SYNOPSIS made of lesser rays Long live thou mighty Treasury of Food Divine Thou Mine of Wealth thou Heavenly Magazine Of Light thou Universal Remedy Of Ghostly Maladys henceforth wee 'll thee Call Our CATHOLICON for whither sure Should Sick Men go but to the POOL for Cure