Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Star of the Islands!—whose auspicious ray]
Star of the Islands!—whose auspicious raySeems full of Heavenly promise, bright and clear;
Fair doth our far horizon now appear,
All brightening in the light of thy calm sway!—
Till clouds and mists and darkness melt away,
And the sweet Heaven seems smiling yet more near:
Ne'er dawned on England a more blessed day!
It shines—it blazes on the enraptured sight—
Its very morn wears a meridian glow!—
Star of the Isles!—the Beautiful—the Bright!
Mankind thy Friend—for who could be thy Foe?—
Glory thine Handmaid—move on dowered with might;
May England's Joy from thee—and back to thee still flow!
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