On My Brother.

LOVELACE is dead! then let the World return
…o its first Chaos; Mus…ed in its Urn;
The Stars and Elements together lye
Drench'd in perpetual obscurity;
And the whole Machine in confusion be,
As immethodick as an Anarchie;
May the Great Eye of Day weep out his light,
Pale Cynthia leave the Reg…ment of Night,
The Galaxia all in Sables Dight,
Send forth no corruscations to our Sight,
The Sister-graces, and the sacred Nine
Statu'd with grief, attend upon his shrine.
Whose worth, whose loss, should we but truly rate
'Twould Puzzle our Arithmetick, to state
Th' accompt of vertu's so transcendent high,
Number and Value reach Infinity.
Did… pronounce him dead! no no▪ he lives,
And from his Aromatique Cell he gives
Spi…s-breathed Fume… … Oderiferous scent
(In Zephre-…ales which never can be spent)
Doth spread it self abroad and muc… out-vies,
The Eastern Bird in her self-Sacrifice:
Or Father-Phoebus wh… to … World Derives
Such various and such multiformed Liv…,
Took notice that brave LOVELACE did inspire,
The Universe with his Promethean Fire,
And snatcht him hence before his Thred was spun,
Env'ing that here should be another Sun,