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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upon His Majesty's Happy Return</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The rising sun complies with our weak sight, <br>First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light <br>At such a distance from our eyes, as though <br>He knew what harm his hasty beams would do. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But your full majesty at once breaks forth <br>In the meridian of your reign. Your worth, <br>Your youth, and all the splendour of your state, <br>(Wrapped up, till now, in clouds of adverse fate!) <br>With such a flood of light invade our eyes, <br>And our spread hearts with so great joy surprise, <br>That if your grace incline that we should live, <br>You must not, sir! too hastily forgive. <br>Our guilt preserves us from the excess of joy, <br>Which scatters spirits, and would life destroy. <br>All are obnoxious! and this faulty land, <br>Like fainting Esther, does before you stand, <br>Watching your sceptre. The revolted sea <br>Trembles to think she did your foes obey. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Great Britain, like blind Polypheme, of late, <br>In a wild rage, became the scorn and hate <br>Of her proud neighbours, who began to think <br>She, with the weight of her own force, would sink. <br>But you are come, and all their hopes are vain; <br>This giant isle has got her eye again. <br>Now she might spare the ocean, and oppose <br>Your conduct to the fiercest of her foes. <br>Naked, the Graces guarded you from all <br>Dangers abroad; and now your thunder shall. <br>Princes that saw you, different passions prove, <br>For now they dread the object of their love; <br>Nor without envy can behold his height, <br>Whose conversation was their late delight. <br>So Semele, contented with the rape <br>Of Jove disguised in a mortal shape, <br>When she beheld his hands with lightning filled, <br>And his bright rays, was with amazement killed. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And though it be our sorrow, and our crime, <br>To have accepted life so long a time <br>Without you here, yet does this absence gain <br>No small advantage to your present reign; <br>For, having viewed the persons and the things, <br>The councils, state, and strength of Europe's kings, <br>You know your work; ambition to restrain, <br>And set them bounds, as Heaven does to the main. <br>We have you now with ruling wisdom fraught, <br>Not such as books, but such as practice, taught. <br>So the lost sun, while least by us enjoyed, <br>Is the whole night for our concern employed; <br>He ripens spices, fruits, and precious gums, <br>Which from remotest regions hither comes. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This seat of yours (from the other world removed) <br>Had Archimedes known, he might have proved <br>His engine's force fixed here. Your power and skill <br>Make the world's motion wait upon your will. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Much suffering monarch! the first English born <br>That has the crown of these three nations worn! <br>How has your patience, with the barbarous rage <br>Of your own soil, contended half an age? <br>Till (your tried virtue, and your sacred word, <br>At last preventing your unwilling sword) <br>Armies and fleets which kept you out so long, <br>Owned their great sovereign, and redressed his wrong. <br>When straight the people, by no force compelled, <br>Nor longer from their inclination held, <br>Break forth at once, like powder set on fire, <br>And, with a noble rage, their King required; <br>So the injured sea, which from her wonted course, <br>To gain some acres, avarice did force, <br>If the new banks, neglected once, decay, <br>No longer will from her old channel stay; <br>Raging, the late got land she overflows, <br>And all that's built upon't, to ruin goes. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Offenders now, the chiefest, do begin <br>To strive for grace, and expiate their sin. <br>All winds blow fair, that did the world embroil; <br>Your vipers treacle yield, and scorpions oil. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">If then such praise the Macedonian got, <br>For having rudely cut the Gordian knot, <br>What glory's due to him that could divide <br>Such ravelled interests; has the knot untied, <br>And without stroke so smooth a passage made, <br>Where craft and malice such impeachments laid? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But while we praise you, you ascribe it all <br>To His high hand, which threw the untouched wall <br>Of self-demolished Jericho so low; <br>His angel 'twas that did before you go, <br>Tamed savage hearts, and made affections yield, <br>Like ears of corn when wind salutes the field. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thus patience crowned, like Jobs's, your trouble ends, <br>Having your foes to pardon, and your friends; <br>For, though your courage were so firm a rock, <br>What private virtue could endure the shock? <br>Like your Great Master, you the storm withstood, <br>And pitied those who love with frailty showed. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Rude Indians, torturing all the royal race, <br>Him with the throne and dear-bought sceptre grace <br>That suffers best. What region could be found, <br>Where your heroic head had not been crowned? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The next experience of your mighty mind <br>Is how you combat fortune, now she's kind. <br>And this way, too, you are victorious found; <br>She flatters with the same success she frowned. <br>While to yourself severe, to others kind, <br>With power unbounded, and a will confined, <br>Of this vast empire you possess the care, <br>The softer part falls to the people's share. <br>Safety, and equal government, are things <br>Which subjects make as happy as their kings. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Faith, law, and piety, (that banished train!) <br>Justice and truth, with you return again. <br>The city's trade, and country's easy life, <br>Once more shall flourish without fraud or strife. <br>Your reign no less assures the ploughman's peace, <br>Than the warm sun advances his increase; <br>And does the shepherds as securely keep <br>From all their fears, as they preserve their sheep. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=374541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But, above all, the Muse-inspired train <br>Triumph, and raise their drooping heads again! <br>Kind Heaven at once has, in your person, sent <br>Their sacred judge, their guard, and argument.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Edmund+Waller">Edmund Waller</a></strong></div>