Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON THE MARRIAGE OF MY DEAR KINSMAN, T.S. ESQ. AND MRS. D.E., by WILLIAM HAMMOND


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ON THE MARRIAGE OF MY DEAR KINSMAN, T.S. ESQ. AND MRS. D.E., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst the young world was in minority
Last Line: People a true real utopia.
Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium


WHILST the young world was in minority,
Much was indulged; no proximity
Of equal blood could then style marriage
Incestuous: but, in her riper age,
Nature a politician grew, and laid
A sin on wedlock that at home was made:
That families being mixt, the world might so
Both issue propagate, and friendship too.
How will you two then Nature's frown abide,
Who are in worthiness so near allied?
For sure she meant that other virtues be
Enlarged thus, as well as Amity.
Civility you might have taught the North;
She the South Chastity: but now this worth
Is wanting unto both, 'cause you engross,
And to yourselves communicate this loss.
But since best tempers virtue soon admit,
Your two well-tun'd complexions may so fit
A second race, and natural goodness lend,
That Nature shall not thus miss of her end.
On, matchless couple, then; Hymen smiles: on,
And by a perfect generation
Such living statues of yourselves erect,
That they those virtues which this age reject
May teach the future, and to act restore,
All honour, living only now in power.
Be thou the Adam, she the Eve, that may
People a true real Utopia.





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