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To the King, upon His Majesties happy return
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Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
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1660
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Wing W529; Thomason E1080_3
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TO THE KING UPON HIS MAJESTIES HAPPY RETURN June 9th The guift of the Author my sonn George's Tutor this author mistaken for mr Clement Ellis Coll Reg Oxon 〈◊〉 TO THE KING UPON HIS MAJESTIES HAPPY RETURN THe rising Sun complies with our weak sight First guilds the Clouds then shews his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes as though He knew what harm his hasty Beams would do But Your full MAJESTY at once breaks forth In the Meridian of Your Reign Your worth Your youth and all the splendor of Your State Wrapt up till now in clouds of adverse fate With such a floud of light invade our eyes And our spread Hearts with so great joy surprise That if Your Grace incline that we should live You must not SIR too hastily forgive Our guilt preserves us from th' excess of joy Which scatters spirits and would life destroy All are obnoxious and this faulty Land Like fainting Hester doth before you stand Watching Your Scepter the revolted Sea Trembles to think she did Your Foes obey Great Britain like blind Polipheme of late In a wild rage became the scorne and hate Of her proud Neighbours who began to think She with the weight of her own force would sink But You are come and all their hopes are vain This Gyant-Islle has got her Eye again Now she might spare the Ocean and oppose Your conduct to the fiercest of her Foes Naked the Graces guarded You from all Dangers abroad and now Your Thunder shall Princes that saw You different passions prove For now they dread the Object of their love Nor without envy can behold His height Whose Conversation was their late delight So Semele contented with the rape Of Jove disguised in a mortal shape When she beheld his hands with lightning fill'd And his bright rayes was with amazement kill'd And though it be our sorrow and our crime To have accepted life so long a time Without you here yet does this absence gain No small advantage to Your present Reign For having view'd the persons and the things The Councils State and strength of Europe's Kings You know your work Ambition to restrain And set them bounds as Heav'n does to the Main VVe have you now with ruling wisdom fraught Not such as Books but such as Practice taught So the lost Sun while least by us enjoy'd Is the whole night for our concern imploy'd He ripens spices fruit and precious Gums VVhich from remotest Regions hither comes This seat of Yours from th' other world remov'd Had Archimedes known he might have prov'd His Engine 's force fixt here your power and skill Make the worlds motion wait upon your will Much-suffering Monarch the first English born That has the Crown of these three Nations worn How has Your patience with the barbarous rage Of Your own soyl contended half an Age Till Your try'd vertue and Your sacred word At last preventing Your unwilling Sword Armies and Fleets which kept You out so long Own'd their great Sovereign and redrest His wrong VVhen straight the People by no force compell'd Nor longer from their inclination held Break forth at once like Powder set on fire And with a noble rage their KING require So th' injur'd Sea which from her wonted course To gain some acres avarice did force If the new Banks neglected once decay No longer will from her old Channel stay Raging the late-got Land she overflowes And all that 's built upon 't to ruine goes Offenders now the chiefest doe begin To strive for Grace and expiate their sin All winds blow fair that did the world imbroyl Your Vipers Treacle yeeld and Scorpions Oyl If then such praise the Macedonian got For having rudely cut the Gordian knot VVhat glory 's due to him that could divide Such ravell'd interests has the knot unty'd And without stroke so smooth a passage made VVhere craft and malice such impeachments laid But while we praise You You ascribe it all To his high hand which threw the untouch't wall Of self-demolisht Jerico so low His Angel 't was that did before You go Tam'd salvage hearts and made affections yield Like Ears of Corn when wind salutes the field Thus patience crown'd like Job's your trouble ends Having your Foes to pardon and your Friends For though your Courage were so firm a rock VVhat private vertue could endure the shock Like your great Master you the storm withstood And pitied those who Love with Frailty shew'd Rude Indians torturing all the Royal race Him with the Throne and dear-bought Scepter grace That suffers best what Region could be found VVhere your heroick Head had not been crown'd The next experience of Your mighty mind Is how You combate Fortune now she 's kind And this way too you are victorious found She flatters with the same successe she frown'd While to Your Self severe to others kind With power unbounded and a will confin'd Of this vast Empire you possess the care The softer part falls to the Peoples share Safety and equal Government are things VVhich Subjects make as happy as their Kings Faith Law and Piety that banisht train Justice and Truth with You return again The Cities Trade and Countries easie life Once more shall flourish without fraud or strife Your Reign no less assures the Ploughmans peace Than the warm Sun advances his increase And does the Shepheards as securely keep From all their fears as they preserve their sheep But above all the Muse-inspired train Triumph and raise their drooping heads again Kind Heav'n at once has in Your Person sent Their sacred Judge their Guard and Argument By ED WALLER Esq Printed for Richard Marriot in St. Dunstans Church-yard Fleetstreet