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

Edmund Waller

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