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Elizium.
So busie still, strewing her Spice, and then
Removing Coales, vexing the Fire agen,
As if some queasie Goddesse had profess'd,
To taste no smoak that day, but what she dress'd:
This holy coyle she living kept; but farre
More busie now, with more delightfull care
Than when she watch'd the consecrated Flame,
Sh'attends the Shade of gentle Buckingham;
Who there unenvi'd sits, with Chaplets crownd;
And with wise scorne, smiles on the Peoples wound;
He call'd it so; for though it touch'd his heart,
His Nation feeles the rancour, and the smart.
Removing Coales, vexing the Fire agen,
As if some queasie Goddesse had profess'd,
To taste no smoak that day, but what she dress'd:
This holy coyle she living kept; but farre
More busie now, with more delightfull care
Than when she watch'd the consecrated Flame,
Sh'attends the Shade of gentle Buckingham;
Who there unenvi'd sits, with Chaplets crownd;
And with wise scorne, smiles on the Peoples wound;
He call'd it so; for though it touch'd his heart,
His Nation feeles the rancour, and the smart.
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