O double facrilege on things divine, To rob the relick, and deface the shrine! Heaven, by the fame difeafe, did both tranflate; Mean-time her warlike brother on the feas His waving ftreamers to the winds difplays, And vows for his return, with vain devotion, pays. Ah, generous youth, that with forbear, The winds too foon will waft thee here! Alas, thou know'ft not, thou art wreck'd at home! X. When in mid-air the golden trump fhall found, The judging God fhall close the book of fate; For those who wake, and those who sleep: From the four corners of the fky; 7 But thus Orinda died. The matchlefs Orinda, Mrs. Katherine Philips, was author of a book of poems published in folio, and wrote feveral other things. She died alfo of the fmall-pox in 1664, being only thirty-two years of age. The The facred poets first shall hear the found, Upon the DEATH of the EARL of DUNDEE'. H laft and beft of Scots! who didft maintain Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign; 1 The earl of Dundee was a man of great valour and many virtues. Being firmly attached, though a proteftant, to the interest of his royal mafter James II. who had abdicated, and was now in Ireland, he affembled a large body of Highlanders, with whom he engaged the army of king William, commanded by general Mackay, at Gillicranky near Dunkeld, and intirely routed them. This victory might have been of very fatal confequences to the affair of the prince of Orange at that time, if the gallant earl had not been killed by a random fhot; in confequence of which his friends and adherents loft all the r firmness, and retiring before Mackay, who had rallied, could never again be formed into any formidable body. This action happened in 1689. ELE O |