An Elegy. 459 . Andfill thy fanguine Cifierns to the brim: Spread forth thywidened arms, and learn to fwim In thine own tears, or elfe their hatl:y f\:reams May chance to overwhelm thee in th' extreams · Of boiftrouspaffion : Paffion has no!bounds ; . . . · . ·4j. It conquers or compou~ THis dayour darkned Hfi!mifphere has loft .• Aglorious fiar, whofe brighmefs did almoft, Appear another Sun, whofe heaven-bred Rayes - Shot forth fuch flames at darknefs, that our dayes, ) Unfoil'd with thades, did feem to overthrow l Hell-fates, and make another heaven below : But now.our heaven is clouded, :Our bright fiar .. · · Is ravifb'd hence, our IfraelJ Wefiern Carre . Hath loft awheel ; and we have chang'dour light . · ·· · 6. To fliades, our day tqnighr 11 THis day ~ ftar is fain, whofe goldel'} head • I Gujlt every eye with flame, whofe lufire led The·wandring Wifemen9f the world to fee The facred objeCt of a bended knee : . That fiar, by whofe fair conduCt we addreft ; ' Toview that nabe, new-born in every brefi : '. That gracious fiar which glorified our fphere; That fill'd ea~Ch eye with objelt, every ear With Oracle ; That fiar has loft her light, . 7· And doath'd our eys with nigh~. 'THis day a Pillar's fain, that did fupport · · · The holy Rafters offair Sion1 Court ; . · Agreat Colofs, who(e marble-fhoulders bore . So large-a. fhare, that even the facred floor Did fiartle, and her confecratedwall Did fhake and trembleat the fudden.fall : Our Pillar's down, that Pillar which became Byd~Jy, our Jfrael's cloud; by night, her flame: · WP.~t flY!? ~4at lgv~~ our Sion can behold · Spch ~ui~es, and yet hold~ 8. Greac ·~ . ·. ~ 'f
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