The Persians us'd at setting of ye sunn <br />To howl, as if he nere again should runn <br />They onely acted it but we indeed <br />Must doot for all that lovely was is fled <br />all that was great good Just & vertuous Dead. <br />The poets of ye graces do relate <br />that they did upon none but Venus wait <br />'Tis false or this was she for in each eye <br />of hers ten thousand graces you might spy <br />So many her vertues were Death heard ym told <br />Mistook ye for her dayes & thought her old <br />yet she is gone all that was lovely fled, <br />all that was great good Just & vertuous dead <br />When Romulus was taken to ye gods <br />& Ceesar mounted to ye blest abodes <br />in floods & earth-quakes nature Largely grievd <br />for these her Heroes heaven had receivd <br />She wept indeed then now she cannot weep <br />the stillness of ye waves but shows ye deep <br />the greatness of ye Loss putts all her faculties asleep.<br /><br />Thomas Parnell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-ye-queens-death/
