Faction Display'd/To the Concealed Author

by William Shippen

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To the Concealed

AUTHOR

Of that Excellent

POEM,

Faction Display'd.

 

WHen Dryden's Tuneful Celebrated Muse
Did God-like David for her Subject Chuse,
She soar'd above her known and common Height,
To Heav'n she rais'd her Voice, to Heav'n she took her flight.
Such is your Muse's Subject, such her Tongue,
Witness this Polish'd and Melodious Song:
Where the same Majesty of Verse,
The same just Stile, the same deep Sense appears.

No Jests nor Puns deform the studied Page,
But all is Manly Thought and Noble Rage;
But all along the mighty Genius shines,
Informs and Animates the sacred Lines.
Not Heav'nly Horace more correctly writ,$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
Tho' to refine his Sense united met,
The Critick's Judgment, and the Poet's Wit.

C. D.

 

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