Poems, chiefly pastoral By John Cunningham. The second edition. With the Addition of several pastorals and other pieces |
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ON Sir W--- B---T's BIRTH-DAY. |
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ON Sir W--- B---T's BIRTH-DAY.
Does true felicity on grandeur wait?
Delights she in the pageantry of shew?
Say, can the glitt'ring gew gaws of the great
An hour of inborn happiness bestow?
Delights she in the pageantry of shew?
Say, can the glitt'ring gew gaws of the great
An hour of inborn happiness bestow?
He that is just, benevolent, humane,
In conscious rectitude supremely blest,
O'er the glad hearts of multitudes shall reign,
Tho' the gay star ne'er blaz'd upon his breast.
In conscious rectitude supremely blest,
O'er the glad hearts of multitudes shall reign,
Tho' the gay star ne'er blaz'd upon his breast.
Ye happy children of the hoary North,
Hail the glad day that saw your patron born;
Whose private virtues and whose public worth,
Might the rich seats of Royalty adorn.
Hail the glad day that saw your patron born;
Whose private virtues and whose public worth,
Might the rich seats of Royalty adorn.
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