<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119296" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coronation—To King Edward VII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou be crowned, or if thou be not crowned<br>With that imperial round<br>Thy forbears from the distant ages wore,<br>Sorrow and suffering for thee have earned<br>A guerdon fairer than thy hope discerned;<br>And through renunciation, thou hast found<br>A cirque of sovereignty not dreamed before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou be crowned? Nay, thou art crowned now;<br>For, lo! upon thy brow,<br>So lately shadowed by Death's mournful wing,<br>A mighty people's sympathy has laid<br>An aureole whose brightness shall not fade:<br>Whose light, more worth than chrism, or seal, or vow,<br>Sceptre or throne, makes thee, indeed, a King!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Mine and Thine</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119296" data-title="Coronation—To King Edward VII de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="If thou be crowned, or if thou be not crowned/With that imperial round/Thy forbears from the distant ages wore,/Sorrow and suffering for thee have earned/A guerdon fairer than thy hope discerned;/And through renunciation, thou hast found/A cirque ..."></div> </div> </div>

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