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| An hymn to the Saints, and to Marquess |
| Hamylton. |
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| Whether that soul which now comes up to you |
| Fill any former rank, or make a new, |
| Whether it take a name nam'd there before, |
| Or be a name it self, and order more |
| Than was in heaven till now; (for may not he |
| Be so, if every several Angel be |
| A kinde alone) What ever order grow |
| Greater by him in heaven, we do not so; |
| One of your orders grows by his access; |
| But, by his loss grow all our orders less; |
| The name of Father, Master, Friend, the name |
| Of Subject and of Prince, in one is lame; |
| Fair mirth is dampt, and conversation black, |
| The Houshold widow'd, and the Garter slack; |
| The Chappel wants an ear, Councel a tongue; |
| Story a theame, and Musick lacks a song. |
| Blest order that hath him, the loss of him |
| Gangreen'd all Orders here; all lost a limb: |
| Never made body such haste to confess |
| What a soul was; all former comeliness |
| Fled, in a minute, when the soul was gone, |
| And having lost that beauty, would have none: |
| So fell our Monasteries, in an instant grown |
| Not to less houses, but to heaps of stone; |
| So sent his body that fair form it wore |
| Unto the sphear of forms, and doth (before |
| His soul shall fill up his sepulchral stone,) |
| Anticipate a Resurrection;
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