Classic Poem

Ah noble Alexander , you are coming
Lively indeed, you get the goale by running ;
Ever ful well you in your life expresse
Xerxes the Persian, whose great manlinesse.
An Emperour of Persia placed him.
Now Sir, your worth being of like esteem,
Doubtles may very well obtaine the goale,
Endeavouring the same with noble soule;
Run in your race untill the same you win.

Charity too excelling man be seen,
Vertuously unto the life exprest,
Nobly retained in your noble brest;
Now run on thus, and man excelling well
In grace, let none your vertuous self excell,
Nobly so you your foes shall manly quell:
Great as you are in Earth, so 'twill befall,
Heaven are ward for your great deeds you shall
Attaine, and happily therein invest,
Make your abode in Ioy for ever blest.