To My Noble Kinsman Thomas Stanley, Esq. On His Lyrick Poems Composed By Mr. John Gamble.



I.
What means this stately tablature,
  The ballance of thy streins,
Which seems, in stead of sifting pure,
  T' extend and rack thy veins?
Thy Odes first their own harmony did break:
For singing, troth, is but in tune to speak.

                   II.
Nor trus thy golden feet and wings.
  It may be thought false melody
T' ascend to heav'n by silver strings;
  This is Urania's heraldry.
Thy royal poem now we may extol,
As truly Luna blazon'd upon Sol.

                   III.
As when Amphion first did call
  Each listning stone from's den;
And with his lute did form the wall,
  But with his words the men;
So in your twisted numbers now you thus
Not only stocks perswade, but ravish us.

                   IV.
Thus do your ayrs eccho ore
  The notes and anthems of the sphaeres,
And their whole consort back restore,
  As if earth too would blesse Heav'ns ears;
But yet the spoaks, by which they scal'd so high,
Gamble hath wisely laid of UT RE MI.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AXBXBXX ABCBCXX ADEDEBB XFBFBAC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 934
Words 168
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7, 7

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