Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHI JKLL MMFFBBNOPP QQRR SSTU VWXYYY ZA2B2B2C2D2YY CCDE2PPYYYF2F2YYYY G2G2ZZYY D2PYYLLYYH2I2| Ye careful Angels whom eternal Fate | A |
| Ordains on Earth and human Acts to wait | A |
| Who turn with secret Pow'r this restless Ball | B |
| And bid predestin'd Empires rise and fall | B |
| Your sacred Aid religious Monarchs own | C |
| When first They merit then ascend the Throne | C |
| But Tyrants dread Ye lest your just Decree | D |
| Transfer the Pow'r and set the People free | D |
| See rescu'd Britain at your Altars bow | E |
| And hear her Hymns your happy Care avow | E |
| That still her Axes and her Rods support | F |
| The Judge's Frown and grace the awful Court | F |
| That Law with all her pompous Terror stands | G |
| To wrest the Dagger from the Traitor's Hands | G |
| And rigid Justice reads the fatal Word | H |
| Poises the Ballance first then draws the Sword | I |
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| Britain Her Safety to your Guidance owns | J |
| That She can sep'rate Parricides from Sons | K |
| That impious Rage disarm'd She lives and Reigns | L |
| Her Freedom kept by Him who broke Her Chains | L |
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| And Thou great Minister above the rest | M |
| Of Guardian Spirits be Thou for ever blest | M |
| Thou who of old wert sent to Israel's Court | F |
| With secret Aid great David's strong Support | F |
| To mock the frantick Rage of cruel Saul | B |
| And strike the useless Jav'lin to the Wall | B |
| Thy later Care o'er William's Temples held | N |
| On Boyn's propitious Banks the heav'nly Shield | O |
| When Pow'r Divine did Sov'reign Right declare | P |
| And Cannons mark'd Whom They were bid to spare | P |
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| Still blessed Angel be thy Care the same | Q |
| Be William's Life untouch'd as is his Fame | Q |
| Let Him own Thine as Britain owns His Hand | R |
| Save Thou the King as He has sav'd the Land | R |
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| We Angels Forms in pious Monarchs view | S |
| We reverence William for He acts like You | S |
| Like You Commission'd to chastize and bless | T |
| He must avenge the World and give it Peace | U |
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| Indulgent Fate our potent Pray'r receives | V |
| And still Britannia smiles and William lives | W |
| The Hero dear to Earth by Heav'n belov'd | X |
| By Troubles must be vex'd by Dangers prov'd | Y |
| His Foes must aid to make his Fame compleat | Y |
| And fix his Throne secure on their Defeat | Y |
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| So tho' with sudden Rage the Tempest comes | Z |
| Tho' the Winds roar and tho' the Water foams | A2 |
| Imperial Britain on the Sea looks down | B2 |
| And smiling sees her Rebel Subject frown | B2 |
| Striking her Cliff the Storm confirms her Pow'r | C2 |
| The Waves but whiten her Triumphant Shore | D2 |
| In vain They wou'd advance in vain retreat | Y |
| Broken They dash and perish at her Feet | Y |
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| For William still new Wonders shall be shown | C |
| The Pow'rs that rescu'd shall preserve the Throne | C |
| Safe on his Darling Britain's joyful Sea | D |
| Behold the Monarch plows his liquid Way | E2 |
| His Fleets in Thunder thro' the World declare | P |
| Whose Empire they obey whose Arms they bear | P |
| Bless'd by aspiring Winds He finds the Strand | Y |
| Blacken'd with Crowds He sees the Nations stand | Y |
| Blessing his Safety proud of his Command | Y |
| In various Tongues He hears the Captains dwell | F2 |
| On their great Leader's Praise by Turns They tell | F2 |
| And listen each with emulous Glory fir'd | Y |
| How William conquer'd and how France retir'd | Y |
| How Belgia freed the Hero's Arm confess'd | Y |
| But trembl'd for the Courage which She blest | Y |
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| O Louis from this great Example know | G2 |
| To be at once a Hero and a Foe | G2 |
| By sounding Trumpets Hear and ratl'ing Drums | Z |
| When William to the open Vengeance comes | Z |
| And See the Soldier plead the Monarch's Right | Y |
| Heading His Troops and Foremost in the Fight | Y |
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| Hence then close Ambush and perfidious War | D2 |
| Down to your Native Seats of Night repair | P |
| And Thou Bellona weep thy cruel Pride | Y |
| Restrain'd behind the Victor's Chariot ty'd | Y |
| In brazen Knots and everlasting Chains | L |
| So Europe's Peace so William's Fate ordains | L |
| While on the Iv'ry Chair in happy State | Y |
| He sits Secure in Innocence and Great | Y |
| In regal Clemency and views beneath | H2 |
| Averted Darts of Rage and pointless Arms of Death | I2 |
Matthew Prior
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