Englands Elyzium.
An Heroick Poem intended.
THou fertil Island, seated in the sea;
Whose waves do dance, by musick of the Moon;
That on thy banks pretty Lavolta's play,
As if they would intreat thee take a boon.
Receive all fish that's food, and bless the store:
For never monster shall come neer thy shore.
Thou little world, yet all without the world;
Thou second Eden, seated in the west:
From thee thy fountains in seven mouths are hurl'd;
Such as from Nile, the garden door so blest.
Humber, ware, Tine, Dee, four so have their names;
Severn, and Owze, the last and richest Thames.
No beasts of danger live upon thy earth;
No Panther, Tyger, ought procuring harms:
To Lyons, Dragons, thou dost give no birth;
Yet with them both, thou dost support thine arms.
Lyons we have not, as in other parts;
But we have men, with Beares and Lyons hearts.