The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne/11

by George Granville

LADY HYDE.^[1]

When fam’d Apelles ſought to frame
Some image of th’ Idalian dame,

To furniſh graces for the piece
He ſummon’d all the nymphs of Greece;
So many mortals were combin’d,5
To ſhew how one immortal ſhin’d.
Had Hyde thus ſat by proxy too,
As Venus then was ſaid to do,
Venus herſelf, and all the train
Os goddeſſes, had ſummon’d been;10
The painter muſt have ſearch’d the ſkies
To match the luſtre of her eyes.
Comparing then, while thus we view
The ancient Venus and the new,
In her we many mortals ſee,
As many goddeſſes in thee.16

1. Afterwards Counteſs of Clarendon and Rocheſter.