Cupid turned volunteer In a series of prints, designed by Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth; and Engraved by W. N. Gardiner: With poetical illustrations by Thomas Park |
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RELINQUISHES HIS BOW AND ARROWS, AND DEPOSITS THEM
WITHIN THE BRITISH STANDARD. |
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RELINQUISHES HIS BOW AND ARROWS, AND DEPOSITS THEM WITHIN THE BRITISH STANDARD.
Fair Pallas smiled upon his prayer:—Who could such orisons forbid?
Not Venus' self, had she been there,
Not Venus' self her son had chid
When he Love's symbols threw aside,
His gold-tipt arrows, Paphian bow,
And argent quiver sought to hide
Within the standard Britons show,
To mark the sister-union which combines
England and Scotia, while Ierne twines
Her verdant shamrock in the royal field,
Where from the same stem grows
The purple thistle with the crimson rose,
And, all conjoining, scorn to yield,
To the drear nightshade of delirious France,
The land which all have prov'd their true inheritance.
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