The Temple of Death, Art of Poetry, Duel of the Stags, etc (1695)/To Mr. Waller
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TO
Mr. WALLER.
By Mr. G. Granville.
When into Lybia, the Young Grecian, came,
To Talk with Hammon, and Consult for Fame;
When from the Sacred Tripod where he stood,
The Priest inspir'd, Saluted him, a God;
So own'd by Heaven, less glorious far was he,
Great God of Verse, than I, thus Prais'd by Thee;
Whoe'er their Names, can in thy Numbers show,
Have more than Empire, and Immortal grow:
Ages to come, shall scorn the Pow'rs of Old,
When in thy Verse, of Greater Gods they're told.
Our Beauteous Queen, and Martial Monarch's Name,
For Jove and Juno, shall be plac'd by Fame;
Thy Charles, for Neptune, shall the Seas Command,
And Sacharissa shall for Venus stand:
Greece shall no longer Boast, nor Haughty Rome,
But think from Britain, all the Gods did come.
To Talk with Hammon, and Consult for Fame;
When from the Sacred Tripod where he stood,
The Priest inspir'd, Saluted him, a God;
So own'd by Heaven, less glorious far was he,
Great God of Verse, than I, thus Prais'd by Thee;
Whoe'er their Names, can in thy Numbers show,
Have more than Empire, and Immortal grow:
Ages to come, shall scorn the Pow'rs of Old,
When in thy Verse, of Greater Gods they're told.
Our Beauteous Queen, and Martial Monarch's Name,
For Jove and Juno, shall be plac'd by Fame;
Thy Charles, for Neptune, shall the Seas Command,
And Sacharissa shall for Venus stand:
Greece shall no longer Boast, nor Haughty Rome,
But think from Britain, all the Gods did come.