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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419896" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Verses to Her Royal Highness the Duchess, on the Memorable Victory Gained by the Duke Against the Hollanders, June 3rd, 1665</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Madam, <br>When, for our sakes, your hero you resigned <br>To swelling seas, and every faithless wind; <br>When you released his courage, and set free <br>A valour fatal to the enemy; <br>You lodged your country's cares within your breast, <br>(The mansion where soft love should only rest,) <br>And, ere our foes abroad were overcome, <br>The noblest conquest you had gained at home. <br>Ah, what concerns did both your souls divide! <br>Your honour gave us what your love denied; <br>And 'twas for him much easier to subdue <br>Those foes he fought with, than to part from you. <br>That glorious day, which two such navies saw, <br>As each unmatched might to the world give law, <br>Neptune, yet doubtful whom he should obey, <br>Held to them both the trident of the sea: <br>The winds were hushed, the waves in ranks were cast, <br>As awfully as when God's people past: <br>Those, yet uncertain on whose sails to blow, <br>These, where the wealth of nations ought to flow. <br>Then with the Duke your Highness ruled the day: <br>While all the brave did his command obey, <br>The fair and pious under you did pray. <br>How powerful are chaste vows! the wind and tide <br>You bribed to combat on the English side. <br>Thus to your much-loved lord you did convey <br>An unknown succour, sent the nearest way. <br>New vigour to his wearied arms you brought, <br>(So Moses was upheld while Israel fought) <br>While, from afar, we heard the cannon play, <br>Like distant thunder on a shiny day. <br>For absent friends we were ashamed to fear, <br>When we considered what you ventured there. <br>Ships, men, and arms, our country might restore, <br>But such a leader could supply no more. <br>With generous thoughts of conquest he did burn, <br>Yet fought not more to vanquish than return. <br>Fortune and victory he did pursue, <br>To bring them, as his slaves, to wait on you: <br>Thus beauty ravished the rewards of fame, <br>And the fair triumphed, when the brave o'ercame. <br>Then, as you meant to spread another way <br>By land your conquests, far as his by sea, <br>Leaving our southern clime, you marched along <br>The stubborn north ten thousand Cupids strong. <br>Like commons the nobility resort, <br>In crowding heaps, to fill your moving court: <br>To welcome your approach the vulgar run, <br>Like some new envoy from the distant sun; <br>And country beauties by their lovers go, <br>Blessing themselves, and wondering at the show. <br>So, when the new-born Phœnix first is seen, <br>Her feathered subjects all adore their queen, <br>And, while she makes her progress through the east, <br>From every grove her numerous train's increased: <br>Each poet of the air her glory sings, <br>And round him the pleased audience clap their wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Dryden">John Dryden</a><div class=q>
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When, for our sakes, your hero you resigned 
To swelling seas, and every faithless wind; 
When you released his courage, and set free 
A valour fatal to the enemy; 
You lodged your country's cares within your breast, 
(The mansion where so..."></div>
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