SEEING THE DUKE of ORMOND's PICTURE, AT Sir GODFREY KNELLER's. Matthew Prior Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T075639 Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. Poems on Several Occasions [English poems only]. London Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and JOHN BARBER upon Lambeth-Hill. MDCCXVIII. 1718 pp. 37-38. [42],506,[6]p.: ill.; 2°.

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SEEING THE DUKE of ORMOND's PICTURE , AT Sir GODFREY KNELLER's . Out from the injur'd Canvas , Kneller , strike These Lines too faint : the Picture is not like . Exalt thy Thought , and try thy Toil again : Dreadful in Arms , on Landen's glorious Plain Place Ormond's Duke : impendent in the Air Let His keen Sabre , Comet-like , appear , Where-e'er it points , denouncing Death : below Draw routed Squadrons , and the num'rous Foe Falling beneath , or flying from His Blow : 'Till weak with Wounds , and cover'd o'er with Blood , Which from the Patriot's Breast in Torrents flowed , He faints : His Steed no longer hears the Rein ; But stumbles o'er the Heap , His Hand had slain . And now exhausted , bleeding , pale He lyes ; Lovely , sad Object ! in His half-clos' Eyes Stern Vengeance yet , and Hostile Terror stand : His Front yet threatens ; and His Frowns command : The Gallick Chiefs their Troops around Him call ; Fear to approach Him , tho' they see Him fall . — O Kneller , could Thy Shades and Lights express The perfect Hero in that glorious Dress ; Ages to come might Ormond's Picture know ; And Palms for Thee beneath His Lawrels grow : In spight of Time Thy Work might ever shine ; Nor Homer's Colors last so long as Thine .