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We raise our own, by giving Fame to Foes;
The Valour that he prais'd he did oppose.

Nor were his Thoughts to Poetry confin'd,
The State and Business shar'd his ample Mind;
As all the Fair were Captives to his Wit,
So Senates to his Counsels would submit:
His Voice so soft, his Eloquence so strong,
Like Cato's was his Speech, like Ovid's was his Song.

Our British Kings are rais'd above the Herse,
Immortal made in his immortal Verse;
No more are Mars and Jove Poetick Themes,
But the Cælestial Charles and just James:
Juno and Pallas, all the shining Race
Of Heav'nly Beauties, to the Queen give Place;
Clear like her Brow, and graceful was his Song,
Great like her Mind, and like her Virtue strong.

Parent of Gods, who do'st to Gods remove,
Where art thou plac'd, and which thy Seat above?
Waller the God of Verse we will proclaim,
Not Phœbus now, but Waller be his Name;
Of joyful Bards the sweet Seraphick Quire
Acknowledge thee, their Oracle and Sire;
The Spheres do homage, and the Muses sing
Waller the God of Verse, who was the King.

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