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WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
On the Twenty-eighth of June, 1838.
TO THE QUEEN.
The orb and sceptre in thy hands they placed,
On thine anointed head a crown of gold;
A purple robe thy virgin form embraced;
Enthroned thou wert, all glorious to behold;
Before thee lay the Book of God unroll'd;
Thy tongue pronounced, thy pen the covenant traced,
Which men and angels witness'd;—young and old,
Peers, princes, statesmen, birth and beauty, graced
That scene of tombs and trophies.—
On thine anointed head a crown of gold;
A purple robe thy virgin form embraced;
Enthroned thou wert, all glorious to behold;
Before thee lay the Book of God unroll'd;
Thy tongue pronounced, thy pen the covenant traced,
Which men and angels witness'd;—young and old,
Peers, princes, statesmen, birth and beauty, graced
That scene of tombs and trophies.—
All is fled;
Like life itself, the living pass'd away,
And none that met remain'd there but the dead!
—Thence to thy closet didst thou not retreat,
In secret to thy Heavenly Father pray,
And cast thyself and kingdom at his feet?
Like life itself, the living pass'd away,
And none that met remain'd there but the dead!
—Thence to thy closet didst thou not retreat,
In secret to thy Heavenly Father pray,
And cast thyself and kingdom at his feet?
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