YE Sacred Relicks which your Marble keep, Here, undisturb'd by Wars, in quiet sleep: Discharge the trust, which (when it was below) @3Fairborne's@1 undaunted soul did undergo: And be the Towns Palladium from the foe. Alive and dead these Walls he will defend: Great Actions great Examples must attend. The @3Candian@1 Siege his early Valour knew; Where @3Turkish@1 Blood did his young hands imbrew: From thence returning with deserv'd Applause, Against the @3Moors@1 his well-flesh'd Sword he draws; The same the Courage, and the same the Cause. His Youth and Age, his Life and Death combine: As in some great and regular design, All of a Piece, throughout, and all Divine Still nearer heaven, his Vertues shone more bright, Like rising flames expanding in their height; The @3Martyrs@1 Glory Crown'd the Soldier's Fight. More bravely @3Brittish@1 General never fell, Nor General's death was e're reveng'd so well; Which his pleas'd Eyes beheld before their close, Follow'd by thousand Victims of his Foes. To his lamented loss for time to come, His pious Widow consecrates this Tomb. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPON THE SAME by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 4. THE TIMOROUS ADVENTURER by PHILIP AYRES LEISTON ABBEY by BERNARD BARTON BEYOND THE BAR by BEATRICE B. BEEBE TREES IN WINTER by ARTHUR WILLIAM BEER |