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Upon His Majesty's Happy Return	A
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The rising sun complies with our weak sight	B
First gilds the clouds then shows his globe of light	B
At such a distance from our eyes as though	C
He knew what harm his hasty beams would do	D
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But your full majesty at once breaks forth	E
In the meridian of your reign Your worth	F
Your youth and all the splendour of your state	G
Wrapped up till now in clouds of adverse fate	G
With such a flood of light invade our eyes	H
And our spread hearts with so great joy surprise	H
That if your grace incline that we should live	I
You must not sir too hastily forgive	J
Our guilt preserves us from the excess of joy	K
Which scatters spirits and would life destroy	K
All are obnoxious and this faulty land	L
Like fainting Esther does before you stand	L
Watching your sceptre The revolted sea	M
Trembles to think she did your foes obey	N
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Great Britain like blind Polypheme of late	G
In a wild rage became the scorn and hate	G
Of her proud neighbours who began to think	O
She with the weight of her own force would sink	O
But you are come and all their hopes are vain	P
This giant isle has got her eye again	Q
Now she might spare the ocean and oppose	R
Your conduct to the fiercest of her foes	R
Naked the Graces guarded you from all	S
Dangers abroad and now your thunder shall	T
Princes that saw you different passions prove	U
For now they dread the object of their love	V
Nor without envy can behold his height	B
Whose conversation was their late delight	B
So Semele contented with the rape	W
Of Jove disguised in a mortal shape	W
When she beheld his hands with lightning filled	X
And his bright rays was with amazement killed	X
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And though it be our sorrow and our crime	Y
To have accepted life so long a time	Y
Without you here yet does this absence gain	P
No small advantage to your present reign	P
For having viewed the persons and the things	Z
The councils state and strength of Europe's kings	Z
You know your work ambition to restrain	P
And set them bounds as Heaven does to the main	P
We have you now with ruling wisdom fraught	A2
Not such as books but such as practice taught	A2
So the lost sun while least by us enjoyed	B2
Is the whole night for our concern employed	B2
He ripens spices fruits and precious gums	C2
Which from remotest regions hither comes	C2
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This seat of yours from the other world removed	D2
Had Archimedes known he might have proved	D2
His engine's force fixed here Your power and skill	E2
Make the world's motion wait upon your will	E2
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Much suffering monarch the first English born	F2
That has the crown of these three nations worn	F2
How has your patience with the barbarous rage	G2
Of your own soil contended half an age	G2
Till your tried virtue and your sacred word	H2
At last preventing your unwilling sword	I2
Armies and fleets which kept you out so long	J2
Owned their great sovereign and redressed his wrong	J2
When straight the people by no force compelled	K2
Nor longer from their inclination held	K2
Break forth at once like powder set on fire	L2
And with a noble rage their King required	H2
So the injured sea which from her wonted course	M2
To gain some acres avarice did force	M2
If the new banks neglected once decay	N
No longer will from her old channel stay	N
Raging the late got land she overflows	R
And all that's built upon't to ruin goes	R
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Offenders now the chiefest do begin	N2
To strive for grace and expiate their sin	N2
All winds blow fair that did the world embroil	O2
Your vipers treacle yield and scorpions oil	O2
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If then such praise the Macedonian got	P2
For having rudely cut the Gordian knot	P2
What glory's due to him that could divide	Q2
Such ravelled interests has the knot untied	Q2
And without stroke so smooth a passage made	R2
Where craft and malice such impeachments laid	R2
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But while we praise you you ascribe it all	S
To His high hand which threw the untouched wall	S
Of self demolished Jericho so low	C
His angel 'twas that did before you go	C
Tamed savage hearts and made affections yield	S2
Like ears of corn when wind salutes the field	S2
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Thus patience crowned like Jobs's your trouble ends	T2
Having your foes to pardon and your friends	T2
For though your courage were so firm a rock	U2
What private virtue could endure the shock	U2
Like your Great Master you the storm withstood	V2
And pitied those who love with frailty showed	W2
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Rude Indians torturing all the royal race	X2
Him with the throne and dear bought sceptre grace	X2
That suffers best What region could be found	Y2
Where your herioc head had not been crowned	Y2
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The next experience of your mighty mind	Z2
Is how you combat fortune now she's kind	Z2
And this way too you are victorious found	Y2
She flatters with the same success she frowned	Y2
While to yourself severe to others kind	Z2
With power unbounded and a will confined	Z2
Of this vast empire you possess the care	A3
The softer part falls to the people's share	A3
Safety and equal government are things	Z
Which subjects make as happy as their kings	Z
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Faith law and piety that banished train	P
Justice and truth with you return again	Q
The city's trade and country's easy life	B3
Once more shall flourish without fraud or strife	B3
Your reign no less assures the ploughman's peace	C3
Than the warm sun advances his increase	C3
And does the shepherds as securely keep	D3
From all their fears as they preserve their sheep	D3
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But above all the Muse inspired train	P
Triumph and raise their drooping heads again	Q
Kind Heaven at once has in your person sent	E3
Their sacred judge their guard and argument	F3

Edmund Waller

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