The Man whose Judgement Joynd with force of Witt <br />The lives of Popes & lives of Heroes writt <br />Who sung true Pleasure showd ye Golden mean <br />And taught Wild Youth to shun ye Lovers pain <br />Who wrote all this—Who more than this designd <br />All fine impressions of Celestial mind <br />That Man that Platina so lately fled <br />From earth to silent Darkness is not dead <br />Evn Death is here restraind ye stroke he gives <br />has killd the man ye Writer ever lives.<br /><br />Thomas Parnell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-platina-prosperus-spiriteus/
