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POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen?
Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime


Was euer nightly RAIN-BOVVE seene?
Did euer WINTER mourne in greene?
Had that long Bowe been bent by Day,
'T had chased all our Clouds away:
But, now that it by Night appeares,
It tels the DELVGE of our Teares.
No maruell RAIN-BOVVES shine by Night,
When Suns yer Noone do lose their light.
IRIS was wont to be, of old,
Heav'ns Messenger to Earthly mold;
And now Shee came to bring vs downe
Sad Newes of HENRY'S better Crowne.

And as the Easterne STAR did tell
The Persian Sages, of that Cell
Where SION's King was borne and lay;
And ouer that same House did stay:
So did This Westerne BOVVE descry
Where HENRY, Prince of Men, should die:
Lo there This ARCH of Heav'nly state
Rais'd to the TRIVMPH of his Fate;
Yet, rais'd in dark of Night, to showe
His Glory should bee with our Woe.
And Now, for that mens Mourning weed
Reports a Griefe not felt, indeed;
The WINTER weeps, and mournes in deed,
Though clothed in a SVMMER weed.





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