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Under his proud survey the City lies,
And like a mist beneath a Hill doth rise;
Whose state and wealth the business and the Crowd,
Seems at this distance but a darker Cloud:
And is to him who rightly things esteems,
No other in effect than what it seems;
Where, with like haste, tho' several ways, they run,
Some to undo, and some to be undone;
While Luxury and Wealth, like War and Peace,
Are each the others ruine, and increase;
As Rivers Lost in Seas, some secret Vein
Thence re-conveys, there to be lost again.
O happiness of sweet retir’d content!
To be at once secure, and innocent.
Windsor.Windsor the next (where Mars with Venus dwells,
Beauty with strength) above the Vally swells.
Into my eye, and doth itself present
With such an easie and unforc't ascent,
That no stupendious precipice denies
Access, no horror turns away our eyes:
But such a Rise as doth at once invite
A pleasure and a reverence from the sight.
Thy mighty Master's Emblem, in whose Face
State Meekness, heightned with Majestick Grace;
Such seems thy gentle Height, made only proud
To be the Basis of that pompous load,
Than which, a nobler weight no Mountain bears,
But Atlas only that supports the Sphears.
And like a mist beneath a Hill doth rise;
Whose state and wealth the business and the Crowd,
Seems at this distance but a darker Cloud:
And is to him who rightly things esteems,
No other in effect than what it seems;
Where, with like haste, tho' several ways, they run,
Some to undo, and some to be undone;
While Luxury and Wealth, like War and Peace,
Are each the others ruine, and increase;
As Rivers Lost in Seas, some secret Vein
Thence re-conveys, there to be lost again.
O happiness of sweet retir’d content!
To be at once secure, and innocent.
Windsor.Windsor the next (where Mars with Venus dwells,
Beauty with strength) above the Vally swells.
Into my eye, and doth itself present
With such an easie and unforc't ascent,
That no stupendious precipice denies
Access, no horror turns away our eyes:
But such a Rise as doth at once invite
A pleasure and a reverence from the sight.
Thy mighty Master's Emblem, in whose Face
State Meekness, heightned with Majestick Grace;
Such seems thy gentle Height, made only proud
To be the Basis of that pompous load,
Than which, a nobler weight no Mountain bears,
But Atlas only that supports the Sphears.
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