Miscellaneous Poems
On the Marriage of
the Fair and Vertuous Lady, Mrs Anastasia Stafford,
with That Truly Worthy and Pious Gent.
George Holman, Esq.
a Pindarique Ode.—by Mr Dryden.
I.
When nature, in our northern hemisphere,
Had shortned day-light, and deform'd the year;
When the departing sun
Was to our adverse tropique run;
And fair St Lucy, with the borrow'd light,
Of moon and stars, had lengthen'd night:
What more then summer's day slipt in by chance,
To beautify the calendar?
Had shortned day-light, and deform'd the year;
When the departing sun
Was to our adverse tropique run;
And fair St Lucy, with the borrow'd light,
Of moon and stars, had lengthen'd night:
What more then summer's day slipt in by chance,
To beautify the calendar?
