Benjamin Colman Poems

CANTO I

This CANTO gives you a Narration
Of Col'nel Bacon's Provocation;
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What means this Mourning, Ladies, has Death led.
Your Brother Captive to his Earthly Bed?
Is Lowe to Nature's chilly Womb returned,
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Awake, my Soul, from abject Thoughts retire,
Invoke the sacred Nine to tune thy Lyre,
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Attend, ye mournful Parents, while
I sing, a Mother in Israel;
The fam'd, the gracious Shunamite,
Whose beauteous Story would invite
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So have I seen a little silly Fly
Upon a blazing Taper dart and die.
The foolish Insect ravish'd with so bright
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So Paradise was brightned, so 'twas blest,
When Innocence and Beauty it possest.
Such was it's more retired Path and Seat,
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Why mourns my beauteous Friend, bereft?
Her Saviour and her Heav'n are left:
Her lovely Babe is there at Rest,
In Jesus' Arms embrac'd and blest.
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