ELEGIE ON THE UNIVERSALY LAMENTED DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ANN ELCHO.
THe universe, it seems, is drawing nigh,
It's final, and foredom'd Catastrophie.
We have seen, it's firie preluds seise upon,
And marr the glory of our
Caledone,
In her most stately structurs, And we see,
That human kind is not from the same free,
And burning seavers every where do waste,
And moulder humane bodies unto dust,
As if this present Age were to expire,
Both with all time, and th' universal fire.
My Lady
ELCHO we the more Lament,
That She by a
malignant flame is sent,
And earlie to the charnel house doth pass,
Since nothing of
malignant in Her was:
She's as i
[...]lustrious in her pedegree;
And name, as the most Noble family.
That's here: her father's, and her brother's bays,
Are as extensive as
Apollo's rays;
All the conspicious honours of the face,
And symmetrie, our Lady
ANN did grace.
And all the rare accomplishments we find,
Dispers'd in others, renter'd in Her mind.
A snow like candor did adorn Her Soul;
It ever was without all fraud and guile;
And all the actions, which from hence did flow,
Were like the source upright, and serene too;
She of all other vertues had such store,
As there be flowers which
Flora's brow decore.
So were't the custom now to canonize,
We might Her in the Alb of saints comprise:
She either was as free from stains as they,
Or had She faults, the flame purg'd these away.
And She's gone straight above the starry pole,
Leaving Her noble Husband to condole.
His double loss Alace! a phrase to mild!
Where His most loving Lady and dear Child,
Or rather Children, and all hopes from them,
Ascend like to
Elijah in a flame,
Onlie well grounded hopes of Her blest state,
Can His excessive agonies abate,
And the two hopeful boys She left behind,
May mitigat the sorrows of His mind,
EDIN BƲRGH Printed by George Jaffrey, ANNO 1700.