Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL


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First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred
Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore
Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean


One fayre Par-royall hath our Iland bred
Wherof one is a liue and 2 are dead
Sidney ye Prince of prose & sweet conceit
Spenser of numbers & Heroick Ryme
Iniurious Fate did both their liues defeate
For war & want slew both before their time
Now tho they dead lodge in a princely roome
One wants a uerse, ye other wants a toome

Camden thou liuest alone of all ye three
For Roman stile & Englishe historye
Englande made them thou makest Englande knowen
So well art thou ye prince of all ye payre
Sithence thou hast an Englande of thine owne
Lesse welthy, but as fruitfull and more fayre
Nor is thine Englande moated with ye maine
But doth our seas, & firmed lands contain

And scornes ye waues wherwith our Ile is pent
Spreadinge it selfe through ye wilde worldes extent.
Lesse needs it feare ye swellinge of a brooke
Whose lowly chanell feeds on priuat lake
That can ye prowder ocean ouer looke
And all ye streames yet thence their courses take.
Long may both Englands liue & liuinge raigne
In spightt of Enuy thine & ours of Spaine.

While ours in thine may thou in ours abide
Thine ages honour & thy cuntries pride
And if perchance th'ingratefull age denies
To grace thy death with toombe & scrolled uerse
Each uillage, church & house their want supplies
Ech stone thy graue, ech letter is thy uerse
And if all these should be with thine outwore
Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore





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