Lachrymae Sacerdotis.

A Pindarick Poem Occasion'd by the DEATH Of that most excellent Princess, our late Gracious Sovereign Lady, Mary the Second, Of Glorious Memory.

By HENRY PARK, Curate of Wentworth in Yorkshire.

LONDON: Printed for Iohn Dunton, at the Raven in Jewen-street, and are also to be Sold by Edm. Richardson, in the upper Court in Scalding-Alley, near the Poultry-Church, 1695.

A Pindarick Poem UPON THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

I.
FAding and Fugitive, alas!
Is life and all its transient Joys,
Which men pursue with big Con­cern and Noise.
[Page 2] Like posting shades they come and go,
Capriciously they ebb and flow,
As in their silver tides the fickle Waters do:
Time 's little Envoys that inhabit Glass,
With silent speed the moments pass,
Fleet, in their brittle house they run,
With Heaven's Antartick Traveller, the Sun.
They count his Lucid Journeys in the day,
And in the Night pursue his absent Ray.
Yet they, with all their pious haste,
With all their share of heels, scarce run so fast
As human life, that was, and is, and then is past.
II.
To Nature's dark Retreats we all must go,
Inexorable Fate will have it so;
[Page 3] The raw bon'd Archer hits us all;
Struck by his Old Victorious Dart, we fall.
The pious, witty, fair and strong,
The snowy aged, and the fiery young,
They all must cross the sooty Lake at last,
And the oblivious Waters taste;
Even they, who by their High Descended Birth,
Do Personate the Gods on Earth;
The awful Sons of Purple Majesty,
that wear the Tyrian Fishes Livery,
They likewise soon or late
Must bend their consecrated Heads to fate,
Wrapt up in dull Narcotick Lead,
A fit reception for the cold and Dead;
In balmy Urns they lye,
The Aromatick spoils of Destiny.
III.
What Head can hope to be
Exempted from Mortality;
[Page 4] Who can secure their hov'ring Breath,
When Glorious Mary yeilds to Death?
She in whom Lustre, Pomp and Gran­deur shin'd,
And all the God like Gifts combin'd,
A graceful Aspect, and a Port Divine,
A Female Sweetness, Courage Masculine,
Majestick Dread, yet free Address,
Awe, without Superciliousness,
Kind clemency, and bright Imperial Meen,
All these united, in her looks were seen;
Nor were the Dowry's of her Soul
Less Charming than her outward Parts,
By both she purchas'd Love, by both she gain'd our Hearts;
Those immaterial wonders of the Mind,
A well-form'd Judgment, and a Wit re­fin'd,
A Fortitude, that made her stand sedate,
'Midst the Convulsions of a giddy State,
[Page 5] A Piety, that breath'd Seraphick Flame,
[...]j [...]y'd Honour, and a spotless Fame,
A Charity, unbounded, large, and Free,
Diffusive as the Deity.
All these Basilick Graces in her met,
to make the Saint, elaborately great.
IV.
Whilst some, Drunk with Despotick sway, did try,
To raise the scenes of hated Tyranny,
Our Charming Regent strove
To Govern, by the milder Laws of Love;
For well the gentle Empress knew,
That Mercy was the All-cementing Glue,
That stubborn Crouds to chearful Homage drew;
Even her Foes, inhuman, fierce, and rude,
She gain'd, by all indearing Mansuetude,
And by Pacifick Arts did try,
To make 'em blush at their Disloyalty.
Thus safe, without the Brawny Switz to Guard,
Or the dull Teague, to fill her Palace-yard.
She, the bright Sexes Ornament and Pride,
Liv'd much belov'd and more lamented dy'd,
[Page 6] Leaving the Brittish Chronicles a Name,
That shall to endless Age her Worth Proclaim,
Born on the never-molting Wings of Fame.
V.
But, tho with Gentle Reins, she Rul'd us here,
Abroad she taught her Foes to fear,
Like the Mellifluous Lion Sampson slew,
She had her Strength, as well as Sweetness too,
So haughty Tourvil knew;
Who, when he came t' insult the Brittish Shore,
Proud of a Triumph bought before;
She in the greatest hazards, calmly brave,
Steadily Constant, Wise and Grave,
With an Intrepid Roman Heart did hear
Th' amazing Tidings, yet disdain'd to Fear;
She sent her Fulminating Navy's out,
And Russel put the baffl'd Gaul to shameful Rout;
With like success, of old Briareus strove
To Vanquish all the Deities above;
Jove, and his Goddess, both Survey'd the Fight,
Resolving to maintain Elizium's Right;
Vext at the many-handed Man,
They hurl'd their powerful Thunders once a­gain,
[Page 7] And when they had the brandish'd Vengeance thrown,
They quickly struck the bold Aggressour down,
Rally'd the routed Gods, and bravely kept their own.
VI.
You, that with unjudicious Joy, did wait,
To hear of Mary's mournful Fate,
Leave off to be Profanely Rude,
Come, and see sorrow in its Pulchritude,
View in the Brittish Nymphs a Noble strife,
Who should excel in more Ingenious Grief,
Clad, like the Sunless World, in shades they go,
Yet bright they shine in their Eclipses too,
Gracing Afflictions, and adorning Woe:
So when the Queen of Probity was driven,
By mens unequal deeds, from Earth to Heaven,
Diana broke her Silver Bow,
And all the lovely Chastities below,
Knowing the Goddess would no more return,
Put on their Sables, and agreed to Mourn.
VII.
But we in vain our Pious Woes relate,
Thin are the Threads that fill the Loom of Fate,
Time deals with man, as man with Trees,
He strikes the stately Timber down,
And lets the ignominious Weeds alone,
The Trees of Celcitude receive his blow,
Whilst unaspiring shrubs rejoyce and grow;
Death loves to play at Royal Game,
Oft spares the Rural homely Dame,
And Strikes the Queen of Glory, Worth amd Fame?
Thus a large Oak, that long had stood,
The top and Ornament of all the Wood,
Of each inferiour Tree,
The sheltring Monarch he,
Struck by the unregarding Ax, must lye,
On the cold surface Dead and Dry,
And mourn'd by all the Vegetable Family,
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