Of that strong soul now ranked with God’s Elect
Her heart upon her people’s heart she spent;
Hence is she Royalty’s lodestar to direct.
The peace is hers, of whom all lands have praised
Majestic virtues ere her day unseen.
Aloft the name of Womanhood she raised,
And gave new readings to the Title, Queen.
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WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked,
Mindful were the ploughmen of who the steer had yoked,Who: and what a track show’d the upturn’d sod!Mindful were the shepherds, as now the noon severeBent a burning eyebrow to brown evetide,How the rustic flute drew the silver to the sphere,Sister of his own, till her rays fell wide.God! of whom musicAnd song and blood…
If that thou hast the gift of strength, then know
Else in a giant’s grasp until the endA hopeless wrestler shall thy soul contend.
What may the woman labour to confess?
‘Tis something to be told, or hidden:–which?I get a glimpse of hell in this mild guess.She has desires of touch, as if to feelThat all the household things are things she knew.She stops before the glass. What sight in view?A face that seems the latest to reveal!For she turns from it hastily, and tossedIrresolute, steals…
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Earth gazes while her fingers dint the breastWhich is his well of strength, his home of rest,And fair to scan.IIMore aid than that embrace,That nourishment, she cannot give: his heartInvolves his fate; and she who urged the startAbides the race.IIIFor he is in the listsContentious with the elements, whose dowerFirst sprang him; for swift vultures…
Of men he would have raised to light he fell:
His country’s pride and her abasement knellThe Man of England circled by the sands.
Hawk or shrike has done this deed
Sweet sentimentalist, inviteYour bosom’s Power to intercede.So hard it seems that one must bleedBecause another needs will bite!All round we find cold Nature slightThe feelings of the totter-knee’d.O it were pleasant with youTo fly from this tussle of foes,The shambles, the charnel, the wrinkle!To dwell in yon dribble of dewOn the cheek of your sovereign…