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The second muse
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The publick safetie, and the falcons flight
By mounting, shews their worth; by lighting, right
Unto their lands; for honours high regard:
Which in all ages should have due reward.
Like shall all finde, who loyall to the state
And countries well do prove, though small or great:
Men shall them praise, God shall preserve their stemmes,
Immortall fame shall canonize their names.
Thence forward went we unto Campsie-lin,
From whence the river falling makes such din[1]
As Nilus Catadups: There so we sported
It is impossible for to report it:
Whither we walk't, or did we sit, or stand,
Quiver was ty'd to side and bow in hand;
So that none thought us to be mortall wights
But either Phœbus, or fair Phœbes's Knights.
There we admir'd to see the Salmond leap,
And overreach the waters mightie heap,
Which from a mountain falls, so high, and steep,
And tumbling down devals into the deep,
Making the boyling waters to rebound,
Like these great surges neere by Greenland found:
Yet these small fish ov'rcome these watrie mountains,
And kindely take them to their mother fountains,
With what affection everie creature tenders
The native soile! Hence comes great Iove remembers
His cradell Creet, and worthie more than he,
Let th'idle Cretians at their pleasure ly,
Even these most worthie Kings, of mightie race
Come of great Fergus, long to see the face
By mounting, shews their worth; by lighting, right
Unto their lands; for honours high regard:
Which in all ages should have due reward.
Like shall all finde, who loyall to the state
And countries well do prove, though small or great:
Men shall them praise, God shall preserve their stemmes,
Immortall fame shall canonize their names.
Thence forward went we unto Campsie-lin,
From whence the river falling makes such din[1]
As Nilus Catadups: There so we sported
It is impossible for to report it:
Whither we walk't, or did we sit, or stand,
Quiver was ty'd to side and bow in hand;
So that none thought us to be mortall wights
But either Phœbus, or fair Phœbes's Knights.
There we admir'd to see the Salmond leap,
And overreach the waters mightie heap,
Which from a mountain falls, so high, and steep,
And tumbling down devals into the deep,
Making the boyling waters to rebound,
Like these great surges neere by Greenland found:
Yet these small fish ov'rcome these watrie mountains,
And kindely take them to their mother fountains,
With what affection everie creature tenders
The native soile! Hence comes great Iove remembers
His cradell Creet, and worthie more than he,
Let th'idle Cretians at their pleasure ly,
Even these most worthie Kings, of mightie race
Come of great Fergus, long to see the face
- ↑ Campsie-lin