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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348017" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Congratulatory Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While my sad Muse the darkest Covert Sought, <br>To give a loose to Melancholy Thought; <br>Opprest, and sighing with the Heavy Weight <br>Of an Unhappy dear Lov'd Monarch's Fate; <br>A lone retreat, on Thames's Brink she found, <br>With Murmering Osiers fring'd, and bending Willows Crown'd, <br>Thro' the thick Shade cou'd dart no Chearful Ray, <br>Nature dwelt here as in disdain of Day: <br>Content, and Pleas'd with Nobler Solitude, <br>No Wood-Gods, Fawns, nor Loves did here Intrude, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor Nests for wanton Birds, the Glade allows; <br>Scarce the soft Winds were heard amongst the Boughs. <br>While thus She lay resolv'd to tune no more <br>Her fruitless Songs on Brittains Faithless Shore, <br>All on a suddain thro' the Woods there Rung, <br>Loud Sounds of Joy that Jo Peans Sung. <br>Maria! Blest Maria! was the Theam, <br>Great Brittains happy Genius, and her Queen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The River Nimphs their Crystal Courts forsake, <br>Curl their Blew Locks, and Shelly Trumpets take: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the surprising News along the Shore, <br>In raptur'd Songs the wondring Virgins bore; <br>Whilst Mourning Eccho now forgot her Sighs, <br>And sung the new taught Anthem to the Skyes. <br>All things in Nature, a New Face put on, <br>Thames with Harmonious Purlings glides along, <br>And tells her Ravisht Banks, she lately bore <br>A Prize more great than all her hidden Store, <br>Or all the Sun it self e're saw before. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The brooding Spring, her Fragrant Bloom sent out, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scattering her early Perfumes round about; <br>No longer waits the Lasie teeming Hours, <br>But e're her time produc'd her Oderous Flowers; <br>Maria's Eyes Anticipate the May, <br>And Life inspir'd beyond the God of Day. <br>The Muses all upon this Theam Divine, <br>Tun'd their best Lays, the Muses all, but mine, <br>Sullen with Stubborn Loyalty she lay, <br>And saw the World its eager Homage pay, <br>While Heav'n and Earth on the new Scene lookt gay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Oh! What Human Fortitude can be <br>Sufficient to Resist a Deity? <br>Even our Allegiance here, too feebly pleads, <br>The Change in so Divine a Form perswades; <br>Maria with the Sun has equal Force, <br>No Opposition stops her Glorious Course, <br>Her pointed Beams thro' all a passage find, <br>And fix their Rays Triumphant in the Mind. <br>And now I wish'd among the Crouds to Adore, <br>And constant wishing did increase my Power; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From every thought a New-born Reason came <br>Which fortifyed by bright Maria's Fame, <br>Inspir'd My Genious with new Life and Flame, <br>And thou, Great Lord, of all my Vows, permit <br>My Muse who never fail'd Obedience yet, <br>To pay her Tribute at Marias Feet, <br>Maria so Divine a part of You, <br>Let me be Just -- but Just with Honour too. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Resolv'd, She join'd her Chorus with the Throng, <br>And to the listning Groves Marias Vertues Sung; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maria all Inchanting, Gay, and Young, <br>All Hail Illustrious Daughter of a King, <br>Shining without, and Glorious all within, <br>VVhose Eyes beyond your scantier Power give Laws, <br>Command the VVord, and justifie the Cause; <br>Nor to secure your Empire needs more Arms <br>Than your resistless, and all Conquering Charms; <br>Minerva Thus alone, Old Troy Sustain'd, <br>Whilst her Blest Image with three Gods remain'd; <br>But Oh! your Form and Manner to relate, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Envying Fair as soon may Imitate, <br>'Tis all Engaging Sweet, 'tis all Surprising Great; <br>A thousand Beauties Triumph in your Air, <br>Like those of soft Young Loves your Smiles appear, <br>And to th'Ungarded Hearts, as dangerous are: <br>All Natures Charms are open'd in your Face, <br>You Look, you Talk, with more than Human Grace; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All that is Wit, all that is Eloquence. <br>The Births of finest Thought and Noblest Sense, <br>Easie and Natural from your Language break, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'tis Eternal Musick when you speak; <br>Thro' all no formal Nicety is seen, <br>But Free and Generous your Majestick Meen, <br>In every Motion, every Part a Queen; <br>All that is Great and Lovely in the Sex, <br>Heav'n did in this One Glorious Wonder fix, <br>Apellis thus to dress the Queen of Love, <br>Rob'd the whole Race, a Goddess to improve. <br>Yet if with Sighs we View that Lovely Face, <br>And all the Lines of your great Father's Trace, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your Vertues should forgive, while we adore <br>That Face that Awes, and Charms our Hearts the more; <br>But if the Monarch in your Looks we find, <br>Behold him yet more glorious in your Mind; <br>'Tis there His God-like Attributes we see. <br>A Gratious Sweetness, Affability, <br>A Tender Mercy and True Piety; <br>And Vertues even sufficient to Attone <br>For all the Ills the Ungrateful VVorld has done, <br>Where several Factions, several Intrests sway, <br>And that is still it'h Right who gains the Day; <br>How e're they differ, this they all must grant, <br>Your Form and Mind, no One Perfection want, <br>Without all Angel, and within all Saint. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Murmering World till now divided lay, <br>Vainly debating whom they shou'd Obey, <br>Till You Great Cesar's Off-spring blest our Isle, <br>The differing Multitudes to Reconcile; <br>Thus Stiff-neckt Israel in defiance stood, <br>Till they beheld the Prophet of their God; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who from the Mount with dazling brightness came, <br>And Eyes all shining with Celestial Flame; <br>Whose Awful Looks, dispel'd each Rebel Thought, <br>And to a Just Compliance, the wilde Nations brought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aphra+Behn">Aphra Behn</a><div class=q>
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To give a loose to Melancholy Thought; 
Opprest, and sighing with the Heavy Weight 
Of an Unhappy dear Lov'd Monarch's Fate; 
A lone retreat, on Thames's Brink she found, 
With Murmering Osiers fring'd..."></div>
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