Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE UNIVERSITY, by ALICIA D'ANVERS


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TO THE UNIVERSITY, by                    
First Line: Hail peaceful shade, whose sacred verdant side
Last Line: And please my self, if pardon'd first by you.
Subject(s): Fame; Tears; Reputation


Hail peaceful Shade, whose sacred verdant side
Bold Thamesis salutes, hail Noble Tide;
Hail Learning's Mother, hail Great Brittains Pride.
Hail to thy lovely Groves, and Bowers, wherein
Thy Heav'n begotten Darlings sit, and sing;
Thy First-born Sons, who shall in After-Story
Share thy loud Fame, as now they bring thee Glory.

Arriv'd at such a rich Maturity,
Those who spell Man so well, would blush to be
Took at the Mothers Breast, or Nurses Knee;
Much more in filth to wallow Shoulder high,
In Tears, till his kind Nurse had laid him dry.

Actions that give no blush of Guilt, or Shame,
To those so young, that yet they want a Name,
(I've heard that Brute, and Infant are the same.)
Then beauteous Matron, frown not on me for't.
Tho at the triflings of your younger sort,
I smile so much; since all I hope to do,
Is but to raise your Smiles, and others too,
And please my self, if pardon'd first by you.





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