<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345237" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Birth-Day Of Queen Katherine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While yet it was the Empire of the Night,<br>And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light,<br>From Temples round the cheerful Bells did ring,<br>But with the Peales a churlish Storm did sing.<br>I slumbr'd; and the Heavens like things did show,<br>Like things which I had seen and heard below.<br>Playing on Harps Angels did singing fly,<br>But through a cloudy and a troubl'd Sky,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some fixt a Throne, and Royal Robes display'd,<br>And then a Massie Cross upon it laid.<br>I wept: and earnestly implor'd to know,<br>Why Royal Ensigns were disposed so.<br>An Angel said, The Emblem thou hast seen,<br>Denotes the Birth-Day of a Saint and Queen.<br>Ah, Glorious Minister, I then reply'd,<br>Goodness and Bliss together do reside<br>In Heaven and thee, why then on Earth below<br>These two combin'd so rarely do we know? <br>He said, Heaven so decrees: and such a Sable Morne<br>Was that, in which the Son of God was borne.<br>Then Mortal wipe thine Eyes, and cease to rave,<br>God darkn'd Heaven, when He the World did save.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Killigrew">Anne Killigrew</a><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=345237" data-title="On The Birth-Day Of Queen Katherine de Anne Killigrew" data-description="While yet it was the Empire of the Night, And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light, From Temples round the cheerful Bells did ring, But with the Peales a churlish Storm did sing. I slumbr'd; and the Heavens like things did show, Like th..."></div> </div> </div>

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