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<DATE>2008-08-02</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A CONGRATULATORY POEM <HI>&V;pon the Happy Nuptials of the Right Honourable</HI> CHARLES HOPE of <HI>Hopetoun,</HI> And the Very Vertuous LADY HENRIETTA JOHNSTON <HI>Daughter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ANNANDALE, Which was Solemnized on</HI> <DATE> the 31&s;t. of Augu&s;t, 1699.</DATE></HEAD>
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<L>IN <HI>Autumn</HI> when <HI>Seges</HI> decores the Fields,</L>
<L>And <HI>Phoebus</HI> all plentiful De&s;ires yeelds.</L>
<L>The&s;e Creatures who did formerly bewail</L>
<L>Their hard E&s;tate, &s;ing now in <HI>Annandale,</HI></L>
<L>There's <HI>Hope</HI> that Heavens will crown the year with good</L>
<L>And <HI>Hoptoun</HI> ble&s;t with all manner of Food.</L>
<L>Whil&s;t Sun and Moon endure, &s;o that there may</L>
<L>Never be Want of <HI>Hope</HI> that Grace decay.</L>
<L>For 'tis by <HI>Hope,</HI> That Love and Charity</L>
<L>Are &s;till upheld, without it both do dye.</L>
<L>May <HI>Hoptoun</HI> flouri&s;h &s;till with Lady <HI>Hen-</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rietta,</HI> and have a Stock of good Children.</L>
<L>That thro' all Ages, there may never fail</L>
<L>The Memory of <HI>Hope</HI> and <HI>Annandale.</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e Noble Fame doth add to <HI>Hopton</HI>'s Honour,</L>
<L>He being by good Fate be&s;tow'd upon Her.</L>
<L>Who like to <HI>Flora</HI> in Spring of the Year,</L>
<L>Sends furth a Fragrant Smell both far and near,</L>
<L>To the Solace of all that See or Hear.</L>
<L>Of the&s;e choice Virtues wherewith her tender Brea&s;t</L>
<L>Is richly endu'd wherein true <HI>Hope</HI> doth re&s;t,</L>
<L>And full A&s;&s;urance may always obtain</L>
<L>Of human Plea&s;ure, Beauty pure and clean.</L>
<L>Her Noble Predece&s;&s;ors ever have</L>
<L>Prov'd in all Ages Pious, Wi&s;e and Grave,</L>
<L>And famous in &s;uch actions as might tend</L>
<L>Their Countrey's Good, and Int're&s;t to defend.</L>
<L>So, all who know the Bridegroom and the Bride,</L>
<L><HI>Hope</HI> they will prove in time (if Good betide)</L>
<L>Which is the hearty Pray'r of <HI>Mu&s;es,</HI> when</L>
<L>They are encourag'd <HI>Virtue</HI>'s Prai&s;e to pen.</L>
<L>But if they find their Labour quite neglected,</L>
<L>To pray or prai&s;e they cea&s;e, being dejected.</L>
<L>Yet &s;till there's Hope they may revive again,</L>
<L>And not always improve their time in vain.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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