Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
To The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer.
Such were the notes thy once-lov"d Poet sung,
Till death untimely stopp"d his tuneful tongue.
Oh, just beheld, and lost! admir"d, and mourn"d!
With softest manners, gentled arts adorn"d!
Blest in each science, blest in every strain;
Dear to the Muse, to Harley dear - in vain!
For him thou oft hast bid the world attend,
Fond to forget the statesman in the friend:
For Swift and him, despis"d the farce of state,
The sober follies of the wife and great;
Dextrous, the craving, fawning croud to quit,
And pleas"d to "scape from flattery to wit.
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear,
(A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear)
Recall those nights that clos"d thy toilsome days,
Still hear thy Parnell in his living lays:
Who, careless now, of interest, fame, or fate,
Perhaps forgets that Oxford e"er was great;
Or, deeming meanest what we greatest call,
Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall.
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