Versos English Anonymous Rebus on a Gentleman's Name

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Rebus on a Gentleman's Name

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First take a bird that hails the pleasant op'ning morn, A land that many luxurious pomps adorn; With an adverb of place, a pronoun and a verb, Italian for to morrow, in French an herb: The fifth vowel, with latin for the pronoun, our, The Scot's church, with O, and letter the French devour; That canopy above, where Phoebus gilds the day, A consonant and semi vowel close my lay; All these initials, doubtless will discover, A youth o'er seas to sail, has been a lover.