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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN ELEGY On the DEATH of the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, Which happened on the 12^t^h of <HI>December</HI> 1677. being our shorte&s;t day of the Year.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SInce Solemn Mourners the bright Day-beams &s;hun,</L>
<L>And with dim Tapers do &s;upply the Sun;</L>
<L>Since with their &s;able Curtains they exclude</L>
<L>The Light, and ev'ry thing with Darkne&s;s &s;hrow'd:</L>
<L>The Heavens (as if they did our Grief fore-&s;ee)</L>
<L>Decreed that now our Longe&s;t Night &s;hould be.</L>
<L>And yet, alas! too &s;hort 'tis to relate</L>
<L>How much we loo&s;e by one untimely Fate.</L>
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<LG>
<L>To tell how long we for a Man-child pray'd,</L>
<L>And how long that great Ble&s;&s;ing was delay'd;</L>
<L>To tell at la&s;t there was a Man-child born,</L>
<L>Which all our Pray'rs did into Prai&s;es turn:</L>
<L>And how the Infant &s;mil'd, whil&s;t in it's Eye,</L>
<L>We did it's Father's mighty <HI>Genius</HI> &s;py;</L>
<L>(A <HI>Genius,</HI> which thus propogated might</L>
<L>The Pre&s;ent Age and Future too delight.)</L>
<L>To tell what happy Dawning did appear</L>
<L>To u&s;her-in our new en&s;uing YEAR:</L>
<L>And how a Morning STAR did Rayes di&s;play,</L>
<L>Which &s;eem'd to promi&s;e a long Summers DAY:</L>
<L>To tell how &s;oon this LIGHT was overca&s;t,</L>
<L>And how our Joys, with the &s;wift Shaddows pa&s;t;</L>
<L>How all tho&s;e Grateful Piles which we did burn,</L>
<L>Were damped with the A&s;hes of One Urn:</L>
<L>To tell, in fine, how all our Mirth did die,</L>
<L>And with the Royal BABE do's buried lye:</L>
<L>To tell this as we ought, Our NIGHT, I &s;ay,</L>
<L>For many Months &s;hould be without a Day:</L>
<L>Darkne&s;s &s;hould over-&s;pread our <HI>Hemi&s;phere,</HI></L>
<L>(As in mo&s;t Northern Climats) half the year:</L>
<L>So &s;hould our <HI>Britain,</HI> like &s;ad <HI>Rachel</HI> be,</L>
<L>When She in <HI>Ramah</HI> wept &s;o <HI>bitterly:</HI></L>
<L>The lo&s;s the &s;ame is, which did both befal,</L>
<L>But that Hers &s;ingle was, Ours general:</L>
<L>And if Her Tears could make one Current, Ours</L>
<L>Should flow like Rivers &s;well'd with many Show'rs.</L>
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<L>So let us weep, till th Voice of Heav'n dos deign,</L>
<L>To bid us (as it <HI>Rachel</HI> did) <HI>Refrain,</HI>
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<L><HI>In hopes our Children &s;hall come back again.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 31. 15, 16, 17.</NOTE></L>
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<LG>
<L>Tis from our Royal JAMES his Virtuous Root,</L>
<L>We pray &amp; hope new Branches &s;till may &s;hoot,</L>
<L>To make him known hereafter by his Fruit.</L>
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<L>Such Fruit mu&s;t needs (like that of PARADISE,</L>
<L>Be alwayes <HI>Good and Plea&s;ant to our Eyes.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. D.</HI> for <HI>H. Brome.</HI> 1678.</P>
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