Thornhill, ’tis thine to gild with fame

Th’ obscure, and raise the humble name:

To make the form elude the grave,

And Sheppard from oblivion save.

Apelles Alexander drew,

Cæsar is to Aurellius due,

Cromwell in Lilly’s works doth shine,

And Sheppard, Thornhill, lives in thine.