Piety, and poesy. Contracted. By T. J.
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- Title
- Piety, and poesy. Contracted. By T. J.
- Author
- Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
- Publication
- London :: printed for Robert Wood,
- 1643.
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- Jesus Christ -- Early works to 1800.
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"Piety, and poesy. Contracted. By T. J." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46267.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Crave although Young, who in his heart did prize
Learning, and yet not wittier than wise;
Religious without Faction, and could be
Courteous without the Court Hypocrisie,
Just to his Friends, not Hatefull to his Foes,
For he had none, though Virtue seldom goes
By Envie unattended; He was one
In whom appear'd much of Perfection,
But Death (the due of Nature) must be paid,
Beauty, and Strength must in a Grave be laid:
So hasty and unwilling to defer
The time, is our great grim, Commissioner;
Then let us mourn, let our true Sorrow swim,
That he is not with us, or we with him:
'Tis Good to mourn for Good, as to Regard,
Or pity, is a kinde of a Reward:
His latest precious Breathings, had respect
To nothing more than divine Dialect,
Which he committed to his mourning Friends;
In Exhortations for their better Ends
Unlocks his breast, which onely could express
Aspiring Prayers, and pious pensiveness;
Thus like a Traveller (that will not stray
To any talk, but's journey, and his way)
Our Peregrine discourseth, till at last
As Tapers, near their end give greatest blast,
He dies, and all the Duty I can do
Is on his Herse to fix a Line or two.