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A poem dedicated to the immortal memory of Her Late Majesty the Most Incomparable Q. Mary by Mr. Hume.
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Hume, Patrick, fl. 1695.
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State In Life and Death most unconcern'dly great XI Behold her in Life's last most dismal Scene Behold her on her Death-bed laid All unconcern'd all undismay'd Nor Youth nor Love nor rising Palaces Nor all Earth's gawdy Joys that used to please Nor sov'reign Pow'r nor an unenvied Throne Nor th'Hero valu'd above any Crown At Death's undue Arrest concern'd our Heroine All and her self more worth than all she did resign As Life unsought receiv'd unconcern ' laid it down Heroic Courage above all Repine Fearless the Brave bold Battles may maintain All are not sure though fighting to be slain Fate pow'ring Deaths down in a leaden Show'r Comes unexpected and as soon is o'er When Death apparent nothing can prevent None can be easie but the Innocent She Vertues vastest compass did comprize And ripe for Glory Wrinkles did prevent Human Perfection could no higher rise To be accomplish'd up to Heav'n she went And does both earthly Grief and heav'nly Joy augment Of all the Daughters of the unborn Bride None liv'd so faultless none so fearless dy'd As when a Journy's early to be made All things in order over night are laid Certain to go uncertain yet how soon Though much she had to do she nothing left undone With fault'ring Words left nothing to entreat Which Death might or disord'ring Grief forget Whate'er for Church or State her mighty Mind Pond'ring on their Prosperity design'd Her Royal Hand left legible behind With that she did her sorrowing Servants grace And after Death her Privy-Seal takes Place So some great Gen'ral on whose watchful care The Fate of mighty Empires does depend Provides against the suddain Chance of War And does his Labours beyond Life extend Thus greatly good she lived much though not long And left the World desirable and young Thus our young matchless Mary does excel Ev'n her who did admit no Parallel So her blest Namesake was prefer'd before Aged Eliza who the Baptist bore In both this sad Equality we find Neither left any like themselves behind XII Now born on Angels Wings she does inspect The Wonders of th' Almighty Architect How his Hand balanc'd th' universal Ball And out of empty nothing call'd this glorious all Whether the Sun continually career Or Earth self-balanc'd spin through yielding Air. What secret Furnace makes the deep boil o'er Shackled with Sand upon the shelving Shore What feeds th' Ethereal Lamps that ever burn What Engine does the mighty Machine turn How Heav'ns seav'n Wand'rers their strange Rounds maintain Without the Mazes that turn Mankinds Brain Pity 's the giddy Systems that we boast Those Lab'rinths in which vain Philosophy is lost Uncertain how Immortal Inmates come To be confin'd in Nature's narrow Room Uncertain how when hence they take their flight They wing the radiant Regions of the Light If Liberty be lovely sure 't is best From the dark Prison soon to be releast What boots it still to run the same Careers To see the Sun rise and set Forty Years By the same low Allurements still befool'd While Reason is by rebel Sence o'er-rul'd The mean Designs of trifling Life pursue Beguil'd by the same Phantosms drest anew W' are all Death's Vassals born but when we die Deliver'd from that Doom Heir Immortality Eas'd of Life's Load we quit encombring Clay And one Night past breaks everlasting Day XIII Rise overwhelm'd Britannia rise thou must Nor stay to shake off thy condoling Dust Nor polish thy unshining Shield T will nobler shew when fully'd o'er Stain'd and ensanguin'd with much Gallic Gore Thy Purple Heroe calls thee to the Field That Colour shews what Harvest it must yield Harvest of Death which though excessive grown So as t' a hundred thousand to arise If he survive on whom the World relies Will be but Cyphers added to this one He whose ev'n beating Breast did never fail In Storms of Death surcharg'd with Iron Hail Who unconcern'd did in Iverna bleed And the grim King of Terrors still outbrave When dastard Death the Wound behind him gave Who ev'ry where defi'd his fatal Dart Found this stroke come too near his Heroic Heart On this side only Man whence the fair Sex proceed Too justly griev'd for her who did them all exceed Since he loath'd Life undaunted dares endure Bold with thy bloody Shield his sacred Head secure Get up Britannia th' ast no time to moan Get up thy warlike William leads thee on His and thy Triumphs what can intervene Now thy bold Youth 's indifferent to their Doom Victorious with their King to overcome Or dying wait on their departed Queen Heav'n in compassion now will end the War That we may Life endure now she is gone Who did for all th' allays of Life attone Peace and the Reign of such a matchless Pair Were Blessings for this worthless World too dear First Phoenix Pair the World could ever boast And oh too like in that their Race is lost Had Heav'n been pleas'd to grant us a joint-Heir Of their unparallel'd Perfections he had been The Son of mighty Mars and Loves all-conqu'ring Queen Darling of Peace and Thunder-bolt of War Products so perfect are deny'd by Fate Seraphic Angels never propagate XIV As the dumb Son affrighted when he saw The Villain on his Monarch-Father draw The Ligature that tied his Tongue up tore And spoke aloud who never spoke before I who the various Tides and Turns of State All-unconcern'd in silence bore When I beheld untimely Fate Lay his cold o'erhasty hand Upon the Royal Mother of our Land Could not forbear to burst and rore And write dismay'd who wrote not heretofore The meanest Tribute to vast Vertue due Both from a Subject and a Servant too That I presume upon her Royal Herse To hang so mean such an ignoble Verse Pardon me Mighty Monarch and believe Many may better write none more sincerely grieve Poems demand a Mind entire at case In vain do wretched Writers hope to please FINIS
Beseeching Nation at her Feet And of Her Virgin Majesty Let them a much-desired Heir entreat And making Court-Enamour'd Anjou by Describe her haughty jealous of her Pow'r To Love's soft Yoke unwilling to submit This minute yielding in the Female Fit The next disdaining the despised Amour Then let the true Reform'd Religion Reflect a radiant Glory round her Throne And last of Years let many Ages crown Her Life her Subjects Blessing not her own Till dampt with Age her Faculties decline And her own mind of Fate 's approach divine Conceal her weary of her State and Crown Like Heav'ns great Light that in a Cloud goes down In Crowds while changling Statesmen Northward run And ere she sets adore the Rising Sun VII Behold our Princess in her blooming Youth In Royal Honour Rich and native Truth With undiscover'd Indies in her Breast More worth than all the Treasures of the East Than all the Wealth the new World sends the old Than Tangier had't been made of Massy Gold Giving to Great Nassaw her Nuptial Hand Of exact Beauty and exalted Mind From all the Frailties of her Sex refin'd Knowing of others of her self and State Thence humble affable yet truly great See how she gains upon the hostile Land How soon her winning Vertues reconcile Us and the Sea-born Rivals of our Isle Whom Matchivilian France to Ruine sought Took Part on both sides and for neither fought Yet could our greedy Interest agree Might Master half the Land and Command all the Sea Her Charms obtain'd so absolute Command As for our bloody Battles to atone The Foreign Daughter of an adverse Land The Dutch ador'd as Mother of their own Now Clouds of Superstition 'gan lowr And overcast the British Hemisphere And Thunder-claps of Arbitrary Pow'r Foresheâ—'d the Tyrant Tempest near See how she ventures to relieve th' Opprest The darling Inmate of her Royal Brest A sinking Church and State to save Heroie Nassau on the Winter Wave Hark how the hideous Tempest roars How Seas confound the circumscribing Shores Heav'n all but in her Eyes in Storms appears A quiet Calm possess'd the Royal Pair Nor adverse Winds nor adverse Fleets he fears Nor the dark Prince that domineers the Air. Sure as the Sun though Clouds the World o'ercast He holds his Course and gains his Port at last Now Armies rais'd t' enslave their native Land Amaz'd with their own guilty Fears disband The monstrous Hydra of Arbitrary sway Dismay'd had scarce the pow'r to run away While the freed States in Consultation meet And lay the Crown at their Deliverer's Feet VIII Now Albion's Fleet upon the Alli'd Shore Appears more terrible than when they fought For all the Wealth that through the wat'ry World is brought Imperious Peace seems now to demand more Than unsuccessful War could e'er have lost No more their Nautic Skil they boast Which through the waving Wilderness descrys A Road to land that underneath us lies Wish undiscover'd the enriching Stone And the Magnetic Pole were still unknown Now Life and Liberty and mighty State Seem overvalu'd at too high a rate Dear bought with her departure they refuse Since to keep these they must their Princess loose Strangely now first in the Exchange o'erseen Though parting with a Princess for a Queen Shipwrack'd between two mighty Tydes of Woe Undone unless she stay undone unless she go Now the distracted Nation crowds the Coast Looking as if their forlorn Land were lost And Shipping Shoals ran swarming on the Shore Their Eyes bring in the Tyde that sets her o'er Fresh gusts of sighing Grief augment the Gale And Sorrow self-encreasing swells the Pyrates Sail. In vain their heavy Hearts hang on the Shrouds In vain through doubled Waves they strain their Eyes The winged Fleet looms through enclining Clouds Where swelling Seas seem to salute the Skies So the deserted Wretches saw the Sun For half his Race from their Horison run Buried in Death like Darkness and Despair Ever to see him gild again their Hemisphere IX In shoals the wond'ring Sea Nymphs waft her o'er Aloft his Trident-Mace glad Neptune bore And on his Sovereign more attendance gave Than on the Goddess native of the teeming Wave Safe she arrives on Albion her own Sought not but came to save a sinking Throne Fill'd not her Father's but empty an one Legally Vacant by Desertion Conscience the Righteous Balance of her Breast Hung up the golden Scales in this was laid Her filial Duty and unsullied Fame Heap'd with the precious Odors of her Name In opposite Circumference were weigh'd Duty to God and to her Native Land All Christendom that did her aid demand Europe with adamantine Chains opprest With Heav'n's she counterpois'd the erring World's Esteem The first Scale went aloft and kick'd the oblique Beam X. Virtue triumphant now prepar'd her Throne Heav'n's universal Eye in all his vast survey While round the wond'ring World he drives the Day Among Earth's glitt'ring Gods discover'd none Whose sov'reign Influence came so near his own And Rival'd his All-animating Ray. Discount'nanc'd Vice stood of her Eyes in awe Goodness sate there enthron'd and forc'd her to withdraw So amaz'd Chaos and confounded Night Retir'd shot through with beamy Darts of Light Dark Superstition which th'enlighten'd Reign Of great Eliza did some Years adjourn Like an Egyptian Mist arose again And a Disease more fierce in its return None but Bless'd Marie could our Church secure Fatal Relapses are most hard to cure In all her Actions bright Religion shin'd Reform'd before by her much more refin'd Of what the Priest so often Preach'd in vain Her daily Duties made the Practice plain Amidst the Cares that did the World sustain She ty'd the Gordian Knot of mighty War To cut which all the Gallic Pow'rs despair War which makes a Confederate of Spain Alone the Terror of Eliza's Reign Guarded the mighty States endanger'd more At their full growth than Infancy before Attack'd by a more formidable Pow'r The Ancient Poets tell how Heaven's great Light Sets in the Western Ocean ev'ry Night This her great Reign most strangely has outdone Our narrow Seas saw set the Rising Sun While through the hissing Deep scorch'd Neptune did retire And chill old Ocean fear'd the Element of Fire Armies beheld amaz'd their Navy burn'd And their Maritime Towns to Bonfires turn'd Helpless whole Armies fring'd th' affrighted Shore Witness'd their dire Disgrace and made the Conquest more She forc'd the French to skulk behind the Boom Fear like a Frost Embargoes them at home Vain-glorious France who would the World o'er-bear Quits th' Oceans Empire and turns Privateer None could pretend none this perform but she Birth made our Venus Sov'reign of the Sea Easie she sate thus on a thorny Throne The Wife was yearly by Queen undone Yet silently constraints of State obey'd As without jarring heav'nly Motions made With undisorder'd Grandeur did sustain Severe Divorces of the dire Campaign Which her consorted Soul did separate By these Divulsions learn'd to die in