Again bids Sion for Josiah weep:

That all successions by a firm decree

May teach their children to lament for Thee.

Beyond these mournful rites there is no art

490Or cost can Thee preserve. Thy better part

Lives in despite of Death, and will endure

Kept safe in thy unpattern'd Portraiture:

Which though in paper drawn by thine own hand,

Shall longer than Corinthian-marble stand,

Or iron sculptures: There thy matchless pen