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To his GRACE
THE
Duke of MARLBOROUGH,
On the Report of His Going into
GERMANY.
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GO, Mighty PRINCE, and those Great Nations see,
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Which thy Victorious Arms before made Free;
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View that Fam'd Column, where thy Name engrav'd,
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Shall tell their Children who their Empire sav'd.
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Point out that Marble, where thy Worth is shown
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To every Grateful Country, but thy Own.
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O Censure undeserv'd! Unequal Fate!
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Which strove to Lessen Him who made Her Great;
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Which pamper'd with Success, and Rich in Fame,
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Extoll'd His Conquest, but Condemn'd his Name:
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But Virtue is a Crime, when plac'd on high,
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Tho' all the Fault's in the Beholder's Eye.
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Yet He untouch'd, as in the Heat of Wars,
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Flies from no Danger, but Domestic Jarrs.
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He grieves that we contemn for what He Fought,
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Blushing to see our Blood no better Bought.
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Disdains in Factious Parties to contend,
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And proves in Absence most Britannias Friend.
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So the Great SCIPIO of Old, to shun
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That Glorious Envy which his Arms had won,
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Far from his Dear, Ungrateful Rome retir'd,
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Prepar'd, whene'er His Country's Cause requir'd,
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To shine in Peace or War, and be again Admir'd
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FINIS.
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