Calhovn's Miscellanie Vol 1 | Page 34

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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