| AN ODE / Upon the Ninth of JANUARY 1693/4 / THE FIRST / SECULAR DAY / SINCE THE / UNIVERSITY / OF / DUBLINS FOUNDATION / BY / QUEEN ELIZABETH. / By Mr. TATE.
Great Parent Hail! all Hail to Thee,
Who hast from last Distress surviv’d,
To see this joyful Year arriv’d;
Thy Muses Second JULBILEE.
Another Century commencing
No Decay in Thee can trace;
Time with his own Laws dispencing,
Adds new Charms to ev’ry Grave,
That adorn’d thy Youthful Face.
After War’s Alarms repeated,
And a Circling Age completed,
Vig’rous Offspring thou dost raise;
Such as to JUVERNA’s praise;
Shall LIFFEE make us proud a Name,
As that of ISIS or of CAM.
Awful Matron take thy Seat,
To Celebrate this Festival;
The Learn’d Assembly well to Treat
Blest ELIZA’s Days recall.
The Wonders of HER Reign recount
In Songs that Mortal Streins surmount:
Songs for PHAEBUS to repeat.
SHE was the first who did inspire,
And strung the mute HIBERNIAN Lyre;
Whose deathless Memory
(The Soul of Harmony)
Still animates the Vocal Quire.
Succeeding Princes next recite:
With never dying Verse require
Those Favours they did show’r;
’Tis that alone can do ’em right
To save ’em from Oblivion’s Night
Is only in the Muses pow’r.
But chiefly Recommend to Fame,
MARIA and Great WILLIAM’s Name;
For surely no HIBERNIAN Muse
(Whose Isle to Him, Her freedom owes)
Can Her Restorer’s Praise Refuse,
While BOTN or SHANON flows.
Thy Royal Patrons sung; Repair
To Illustious ORMOND’s Tomb:
As, Living, He made Thee His Care,
Give Him, next thy CAESARS Room.
Then a Second ORMOND’s Story
Let astonisht Fame recite;
But she’ll wrong the Hero’s Glory,
Till with equal Flame she write
To that which he displays in Fight.
CHORUS.
With Themes like these ye Sons of Art
Treat this Auspicious Day;
To Bribe the Minutes as they part,
Thise Blessings to bequeath, that may
Long, long rem,ain Your Kindness to repay.
DUBLIN: Printed by Joseph Ray, on College-Green, 1694.
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