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Spoken to the Queen in Trinity-College New-Court in Cambridge.

Thou equal Partner of the Royal Bed,
That mak'st a Crown sit soft on Charles's Head;
In whom with Greatness, Virtue takes her Seat;
Meekness with Power, and Piety with State;
Whose Goodness might even Factious Crouds reclaim,
Win the Seditious, and the Savage tame;
Tyrants themselves to gentlest Mercy bring,
And only useless is on such a King;
See, mighty Princess, see how every Breast,
With Joy and Wonder, is at once possest:
Such was the Joy, which the first Mortals knew,
When Gods descended to the People's View,
Such devout wonder did it then afford,
To see those Pow'rs they had unseen ador'd,
But they were Feign'd: nor if they had been true,
Could shed more Blessings on the Earth than you:
Our Courts enlarg'd, their former Bounds disdain,
To make Reception for so great a Train;
Here may your sacred Breast rejoice to see,
Your own Age strive with Ancient Piety,
Soon now, since blest by your auspicious Eyes,
To full perfection shall our Fabrick rise.
Less powerful Charms than yours of old could call,
The willing Stones into the Theban Wall,
And ours which now its rise to you shall owe,
More fam'd than that by your great Name shall grow.