Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments |
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A SONG ON Newyears-day before the King, Car. 2. |
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A SONG ON Newyears-day before the King, Car. 2.
My trembling Song! awake! arise!And early tell thy tuneful Tale,
Tell thy great Master, that the Night is gone;
The feeble Phantoms disappear,
And now the New-Year's welcom Sun
O'respreads the Eastern Skies;
He smiles on every Hill, he smiles on every Vale.
His glories fill our Hemisphere;
Tell him Apollo greets Him well,
And with his fellow Wanderers agrees
To reward all his labours, and lengthen his days.
In spight of the politick follies of Hell,
And vain contrivance of the destinies.
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Shall His sacred temples gore,
For all the rigours of His life are o're.
Wondrous Prince! design'd to show
What noble minds can bravely undergo,
You are our wonder, you our love;
Earth from beneath, Heaven from above,
Call loud for Songs of Triumph, and of praise,
Their voices, and their souls they raise;
IO PÆAN do we sing
Long Live, Long Live the King!
Rise mighty Monarch, and ascend the Throne,
'Tis yet, once more your own,
For Lucifer, and all his Legions are o'rthrown:
Son of the Morning, first-born Son of Light,
How wert thou tumbled headlong down,
Into the dungeons of Eternal night
While th' Loyal Stars of the Celestial Quire
Surrounded with immortal beams,
Mingle their unpolluted flames,
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With awful reverence they adore Him,
Cover their faces, and fall down before Him;
And night and day for ever sing
Hosannah, Hallelujah to th' Almighty King!
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