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Tixall Poetry.
To
Mr Normington,
at Piacenza,
upon Occasion of The Overflowes of Po and Tyber.
I.
Come let me traine my muse to soare by thy ne
The lofty est of the Nine;
Why should not I with Tybers deluge flow
As full as thou with Po;
Can Alpes become Parnassus there,
And Apenine not here?
What if the river's king
Raigne ore the Heleconian spring,
Can Phebus cast such partiall glances on
That urne which overwhelm'd his falling sonne?
Come let me traine my muse to soare by thy ne
The lofty est of the Nine;
Why should not I with Tybers deluge flow
As full as thou with Po;
Can Alpes become Parnassus there,
And Apenine not here?
What if the river's king
Raigne ore the Heleconian spring,
Can Phebus cast such partiall glances on
That urne which overwhelm'd his falling sonne?
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