To The King, Upon His Welcome To Hampton Court. Set And Sung Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECCFFGHCCFFFFCC| Welcome great C sar welcome now you are | A |
| As dearest peace after destructive war | B |
| Welcome as slumbers or as beds of ease | C |
| After our long and peevish sicknesses | C |
| O pomp of glory Welcome now and come | D |
| To repossess once more your long'd for home | E |
| A thousand altars smoke a thousand thighs | C |
| Of beeves here ready stand for sacrifice | C |
| Enter and prosper while our eyes do wait | F |
| For an ascendent throughly auspicate | F |
| Under which sign we may the former stone | G |
| Lay of our safety's new foundation | H |
| That done O C sar live and be to us | C |
| Our fate our fortune and our genius | C |
| To whose free knees we may our temples tie | F |
| As to a still protecting deity | F |
| That should you stir we and our altars too | F |
| May great Augustus go along with you | F |
| Chor Long live the King and to accomplish this | C |
| We'll from our own add far more years to his | C |
Robert Herrick
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