Sacellum Apollinaire a funeral poem to the memory of that great patriot & statesman, George, late Marquis of Hallifax.

Sacellum Apollinaire a funeral poem to the memory of that great patriot & statesman, George, late Marquis of Hallifax.

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A Funeral POEM, &c.

A Funeral POEM, &c.

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AS HEAV'N it Self's on Empire's Axis roll'd,

(For God-Head's but Dominion Uncontroul'd;)

So the Crown'd Head, the Sublunary JOVE,

Does, in his Royal Orb of Glory, move;

With all his Bolts of Fate, in his High Poſt

Of Sovereign Pow'r, the Weilded Thunder boaſt.

But, in the Higheſt tow'ring Flight of KINGS,

'Tis the Great Stateſman plumes their Eagles Wings;

They Move the Great MACHINE, He Sets the Springs.

And thus, whilſt Pregnant EMPIRE's Labouring Head

With ſome vaſt Off-ſpring Teems; the Stateſman's Aid,

To bring the Fair Divine Minerva Forth,

Is call'd the Great Lucina to the Birth.

Wiſdom and Counſel! 'Tis their Min'iſtring Ray,

Thoſe Bright CROWN-Genij, Cheer th' Imperial Sway:

[Page]The Harmony of WORLDS is only Theirs;

Empire but Guides, 'tis They that Tune the Spheres:

Counſel, in Church or State, the Warmth, by Whom

Aaron's and Moſes's Budding Wands both Bloom:

Thus MONARCHY, what, tho' She Reigns Alone,

'Tis by her Argus-Eyes She Guards her Throne:

Her Lights an Hundred, tho' her Hand's but One.

Of thoſe Rich Lights, Great HALLIFAX ſhin'd there;

In Powr's whole Conſtellation, None more Fair:

In Calms or Storms, in every varying Gale,

The Furl'd, the Hoyſted, or the Slacken'd Sayl;

The Helm to Manage, or the Mates to Cheer,

No Pilot-Hand cou'd ever Worthier Steer:

TRUST, the Magnetick Load ſtar of his Soul;

And FAITH, and ZEAL, his Needles to the Pole.

The Studied World was his Long Theam, and All

The Politick Movements of the Mighty Ball:

[Page]Yes, the Old World He had Fathom'd o're and o're;

Nay, had there been yet Ʋnknown Globes t' explore,

To give that Head, that Reach, thoſe Depths, their Due,

He had ſtood a Fair Columbus, for the New.

In SENATES, There, with all his Brighteſt Beams,

Not Michael, to th' Embattl'd Seraphims,

A Mightier Leading CHIEF: Oraculous Senſe!

Victorious Right! Amazing Eloquence!

All from that Cleareſt Organ ſweetly Sung:

From that bold ENGLISH CICERO's Silver Tongue,

VVell might Great TRUTH, and Genuine Juſtice flow;

For He Lookt Ʋpward, when He Talkt Below:

Up to ASTRAEA, Heav'ns tranſlated Pride,

Her Righteous Ballance his Great Standard Guide.

In Redreſs'd Wrongs, and Succour'd Rights APPEAL,

No Hand, in the Judiciary Scale,

More VVeigh'd and Pois'd, than HALLIFAX alone;

Ev'n Half the Great Tribunal, was his Own.

[Page]But, in that more Exalted Patriot-Cauſe,

The Moulding of thoſe Stamps Imperial, LAWS;

Then, when the whole Divinity of Pow'r,

In her Collective Strength, that Lab'ring Hour,

In her All-wiſe Conſulting Providence,

Sits, ſome New Fair Creations to Commence;

In that High VVork, for the Great FIAT Fixt,

No Hand like His, the Sovereign ELEMENTS Mixt.

This Fam'd GAMALIEL in the Great State-Schools,

Thus by unerring PRUDENCE Sacred Rules,

No wonder, on that Card'nal Hinge He mov'd;

In Pow'r-Craft Skill'd, that Bold Arts-Maſter prov'd:

The Great Performing Part He had Study'd thro',

And no leſs Learnt the Greater Duty too.

The Publick Spirit, and the Active Soul,

More Lively VVarmth, than e're Prometheus ſtole,

Thoſe Champions both of Earth and Heav'n's Juſt Right,

Bound by their Great Indenture Tripartite,

[Page]Their equally divided FAITH muſt bring,

Betwixt their GOD, their Country, and their King.

In Pow'r and Truſt, thro' his whole Life's long Scene,

Never did Honour wear a Hand more Clean:

He from the Iſrael Prophet's Copy drew;

The Suppliant Naaman for his Grace might ſue.

Diſtreſs, 'tis true, his Succour ne'r cou'd lack —

But then her Laded Chariots muſt go Back.

No Syrian Bribe was on his Shoulders worn;

That Tainted Robe ſuch TRUTH and VIRTUE ſcorn.

Thus, like the Eden Pair, Why is Truth drawn

A Naked Beauty, in Tranſparent Lawn?

Yes, 'till her Innocence, for Imp'ious Gold,

That Tempting, Falſe Heſperian Apple, Sold;

'Tis from that Fall, Original Bluſhes came;

'Twas Then She wanted Fig-Leaves for her Shame.

A Bribe! That moſt loath'd Thought! Ev'n his whole Roof,

His humbleſt Menials, that Temptation-Proof,

[Page](So Fair their Leading LORD's Example ſtands)

Oblig'd with Frank Full Hearts, but Empty Hands.

His Favours in that Generous Current run,

As Providence vouchſafes Her Rain and Sun.

His Favours Cheaper ev'n than Heav'n's confer'd:

For, though, like Heav'n, th' Imploring Pray'r He heard;

Yet no Thanksgiving Offerings Return'd:

To His Kind GRACE, no Gumms nor Incenſe burn'd.

Ay, and 'twas Nobly Brave! What can more high,

Than an Ʋnmercinary Greatneſs fly?

If ought his Obligations muſt Defray,

He rather choſe that Heav'n, than Man ſhould Pay:

Yes, with a Fair Ambition, Juſt Diſdain,

Scorn'd leſs than JOVE, his Golden Show'rs ſhou'd Rain.

And well ſo High, that Fair Ambition tow'r'd;

For HALLIFAX ſo Scorn'd, and JOVE ſo Show'r'd:

Whil'ſt that vaſt Affluence Warm'd his Fruitful Soyl,

'Till his Rich Glebe, and Loaded Harveſt Pile,

With that Increaſe, that Milky Canaan flow'd:

Proſperity thus Reap'd, where Virtue Sow'd.

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NATURE & FORTUNE, Here, both Rivals join'd,

Which to their darling HALLIFAX, more Kind,

Should heap the Ampler Maſs: Nature her more

Refin'd, and Fortune in her Courſer Oar.

The World but Smil'd, where Heav'n had Smil'd before.

Great Bleſſings, when by Greater MERIT ſhar'd,

(Not Providence's Gift, but her Reward,)

Are all Heav'n's Faireſt Blazon, Nobleſt Pride;

Th' Eternal DISPENSATION Juſtify'd.

The Righteous Diſtribution ought no leſs:

So Great 'tis to Deſerve, and then Poſſeſs.

Nor in Proud Courts, nor States alone, that Great

Dictator; Ev'n in the DESPOTIC Seat,

In His own narrower Domeſtic Sway,

His Houſhold Sweet Penates deckt ſo Gay;

To VICE, like Hannibal to Rome, that ſworn

Eternal Foe; and VIRTUE's Champion born:

To his own Filial Nurſery, ſo Kind

A FATHER, with thoſe Leading Lights, He ſhin'd:

[Page] HONOƲR, ſo Lovely by that Pencil drawn,

The Early Phoſphor to their Morning Dawn:

So Fam'd his equally Paternal Care,

T' Inſtruct the Great, and to Adorn the

His Advice to a Daughter.

Fair.

Thus BEAUTY's Toilet ſpread ſo all Divine,

Her Cabinet Jems ſo Furniſht from That MINE;

The Virgin, and the Bridal Coronet,

Were, by Kind HALLIFAX, ſo richly Set;

VIRTUE and INNOCENCE at that full View,

As ev'n th' Original Eden Lanſchape drew:

All her whole Hierarchy of Graces; not

One leaſt Enamell'd Heav'nly Spark forgot;

Each Star in the whole Feminine Renown,

From Caſſiopoea's CHAIR, to Ariadne's CROWN.

In the Rich Furniture of that Fair MIND,

Thoſe dazling Intellectual Graces ſhin'd,

To draw the Love and Homage of Mankind;

Nothing cou'd more than his firm FRIENDSHIP Charm:

Cheerful, as Bridal-Songs; as South-Suns, Warm;

[Page]And Fixt, as Northern-Stars: When e're He daign'd

The Solemn Honour of his Plighted Hand,

He ſtood a more than Second Pylades;

Ʋnſhaken, as Immutable DECREES.

But, whilſt theſe vaſt Perfections I Recount,

The Heights to which thoſe Soaring Glories mount:

My Muſe thus rapt into that Cheerful Sphear;

Is This her Wailing Dirge? her Funeral Tear?

For his Sad DEATH, to Draw his Glorious LIFE!

Paint Lights for Shades, and Ecſtacies for Grief!

Are Theſe the Melancholy Rites She brings,

Fit Ayrs to Tune the Mournful Theme She ſings!

Yes, the True Mourner's in th' Hiſtorian Play'd:

What's Preſent Grief, but Paſt Delight Diſplay'd?

Counting what once was Ours, we need no more:

To Sum th' Enjoyment, does the Loſs Deplore.

Beſides, What's all our Sable Cavalcade,

To the Great DEAD, our Darkeſt Funeral Shade?

[Page]T' Illuſtrious Virtue, Grief's an Eaſy Debt;

Her Glorious Amulet but Cheaply Set:

She finds the Diamond, and We the Jet.

When Learning, Wiſdom, Eloquence, Expire,

And the Great SOULS, (Sparks of Celeſtial Fire)

Back to Their Elemental Sourſe Retire:

To ſuch Rich DUST, in vain we Pyramids Rear;

For Mauſoloeum's are but Pageants there.

What's a poor Short-liv'd Pile of Crumbling Earth,

A Mould'ring Tomb, t' Apollinary WORTH?

Worth, that ſo far from ſuch a Narrow Bound,

Spreads a Large Field! Moves th' Ʋniverſal Round!

Fills every Tongue! Thus, what no Ʋrn contains,

The World's the Casket to thoſe Great REMAINS.

Nor let Poetick Vanity Rehearſe

Her Boaſted Dreams, Her Miracles of VERSE:

Think, in ſome poor Recorded EPITAPH,

That Shallow Page of Braſs, or Marble Leaf;

[Page]Or, in ſome more Voluminous Folio Pile,

A Davideis, or Arthur's Sweating Toil,

Some Sacred WORTHY's Deathleſs Fame t' Enſtal;

Rais'd by her Lyres, like the Old Theban Wall.

No; when Great NAMES ne'r Dye; That Work alone,

Is all a Fair Creation of Their Own.

True GLORY Shines by her Own Lighted Beam:

'Tis not the Muſe's Song, but Muſe's THEAM.

When in Great HALLIFAX, WIT's Pantheon fell,

And Death now huſht that Silenc'd ORACLE▪

From Fair Eliza's Hallow'd

Weſtminſter-School.

Helicon-Walls,

Methinks, I hear a Fatal Summon calls:

When, lo! the Delphick

Dr. Buſby, who Dy'd the ſame Day.

SEER, that Reverend Bard

Of Sacred Literature's rich Fount, prepar'd

Th' Expiring HALLIFAX, in Death to wait.—

No leſs Attendant on his Funeral State,

Fate to that ever Honour'd HEAD cou'd owe:

LEARNING it ſelf muſt ſhake, at ſuch a Blow.

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But, tho' with all this Mine of Learning ſtor'd;

He Liv'd, and Dy'd, no Niggard of that Hoard:

Witneſs His own Long Pious Founded

His Free School Foundations.

Piles,

Where Nurtur'd ARTS, by His Auſpicious Smiles,

Tune their Young Voices to the Muſe's Song,

Nerv'd by his HAND to Books, and Virtue, ſtrong.

Thus, as th' Old Iſrael Patriarch, to his once

Illuſtrious Twelve, HE to His Hundred Sons,

His Fruitful CHARITY's Adopted Race,

(With all his Tendereſt Diffuſive Grace,)

Doals, with a True Paternal Glory crown'd,

His Living and His Dying Bleſſings round.

Yes, from that Hand, this Scatter'd Bread muſt fall:

He Furniſhes thoſe Numerous Pencils, all

To Copy from His Great Original:

Reſolv'd, if poſſible, Reſolv'd t' Inſpire,

To this Young Nurſery, His Cheriſht Choire,

His own Rich Soul, their Tranſmigrated Fire.

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But, why (if 'tis not a too Bold Offence,

To dare Expoſtu'late with OMNIPOTENCE,)

Why ſhould Prodigious Worth, from th' Orb it warm'd,

Snatch'd from the Soyl it cheriſht, Eyes it charm'd,

From its Deſerted Charge, unkindly Fly,

Quit th' Earth it Bleſt, Impoveriſh Worlds, and Dye?

No, the Kind Heav'ns, in Mercy, to Rebate

That Mighty Loſs, the too keen Edge of Fate,

Have circled Virtue in a Fence ſo High,

As ſtands ſo Safe, it knows not how to Die;

But Founds its own Proud Immortality.

For, as ſome Lofty Cedar, long had ſtood

The Land-mark of the Plain, and Glory of the Wood;

Till the Dread Voice of Fate, Heav'n's Angry Blaſt,

The Bolt of the Deſtroying Thunder caſt,

All the tall PRIDE lies Fal'n.—Yet ſtill ſome Shoot,

Some tender Scyen from the Sacred ROOT,

By' its Nutrimental PARENT-Succours fed

Springs, Growes, Spreads, Flouriſhes; till th' Uprear'd Head

[Page]Do's t' all its Great Original H [...]IGHTS improve,

A Second Pearch for the Fair Bird of JOVE.

So may Great HALLIFAX Himſelf Survive;

Thus Fall, and thus His Deathleſs Virtues Live.

LIVE in His Fair SUCCESSION, ever Bleſt;

Whil'ſt Honour Builds its own Rich PHAENIX Neſt.

FINIS.

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Sacellum Apollinare. A Funeral POEM TO THE MEMORY OF THAT Great Patriot & Stateſman, GEORGE, LATE Marquiſs of Hallifax.

—Sapiens dominabitur Aſtris.

LONDON, Printed by J. Wilkins; and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms-Inn, in Warwick-Lane, 1695.

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Sacellum Apollinaire a funeral poem to the memory of that great patriot & statesman, George, late Marquis of Hallifax.

Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.

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1695

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