THISTLE
Had but the courteous Delphoins heard
One note of his, they would have dar’d
To quite the waters, to enjoy
In banishment such melody;
And had the Mimick Proteus known
H’had left his ugly herd, and grown
A curious Siren, to betray
This Ulysses to some stay;
But juster fates denied, nor would
Another Land that Genius hold,
As could, beyond all wonder hurld,
Fathom the Intellectual world:
But whiter runne I, I intend
To welcome onely, not commend;
But that thy virtues render it
No private, but a Publick debt.
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