When in mid-air the golden trump shall sound, To raise the nations under ground; When in the valley of Jehosophat, The judging God shall close the book of fate, And there the last assizes keep, For those who wake, and those who sleep; When rattling bones together fly, From the four corners of the sky; When sinews o'er the skeletons are spread, Those clothed with flesh, and life inspires the dead; The sacred poets first shall hear the sound, } And foremost from the tomb shall bound, } For they are covered with the lightest ground; } And straight, with inborn vigour, on the wing, Like mounting larks, to the new morning sing. There thou, sweet saint, before the choir shall go, } As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, } The way which thou so well hast learnt below. } FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 80: Henry Killigrew, D.D., the young lady's father, was himself a poet. He wrote "The Conspiracy," a tragedy much praised by Ben Jonson and the amiable Lord Falkland, published in 1634. This edition being pirated and spurious, the author altered the play, and changed the title to "Pallantus and Eudora," published in 1652.--See WOOD'S _Athenæ Oxon_. Vol. II. p. 1036.] [Footnote 81: This line certainly gave rise to that of Pope in Gay's epitaph: In wit a man, simplicity a child. ] [Footnote 82: James II. painted by Mrs Killigrew.] [Footnote 83: Mary of Este, as eminent for beauty as rank, also painted by the subject of the elegy.] [Footnote 84: Mrs Katherine Philips, whom the affectation of her age called _Orinda_, was the daughter of Mr Fowler, a citizen of London. Aubrey, the most credulous of mankind, tells us, in MS. Memoirs of her life, that she read through the Bible before she was four years old, and would take sermons verbatim by the time she was ten. She married a decent respectable country gentleman, called Wogan; a name which, when it occurred in her extensive literary correspondence, she exchanged for the fantastic appellation of _Antenor_. She maintained a literary intercourse for many years with bishops, earls, and wits, the main object of which was the management and extrication of her husband's affairs. But whether because the correspondents of Orinda were slack in attending to her requests in her husband's favour, or whether because a learned lady is a bad manager of sublunary concerns, Antenor's circumstances became embarrassed, notwithstanding all Orinda's exertions, and the fair solicitor was obliged to retreat with him into Cardiganshire. Returning from this seclusion to London, in 1664, she was seized with the small-pox, which carried her off in the 33d year of her age. Her poems and translations were collected into a folio after her death, which bears the title of "Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the matchless ORINDA. London, 1667."--See BALLARD'S _Memoirs of Learned Ladies_, p. 287.