Jubilate! An Offering for 1887: From Martin F. Tupper |
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[Our Empress Queen!—Victoria's name of glory] |
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[Our Empress Queen!—Victoria's name of glory]
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The thirty-fifth of my Three Hundred Sonnets, published by Hall & Virtue in 1860, is a most fortunate prophecy, certainly more than twenty years before D'Israeli made it history. The “way chaotic” was the Indian Mutiny. The sonnet is headed, by happy anticipation, “India's Empress.”
Added as England's grace to Hindostan:
O climax to this age's wondrous story,
Full of new hope to India and to Man
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Of our Jerusalem shall now shine there
Brighter than ever since the world began:
Yet, by a way chaotic, drear and gory,
Travelled this blessing; as a martyr might
Wrestling to heaven through tortures unaware.
Our Empress Queen! for thee thy peoples' pray'r
All round the globe to God ascends united,
That He may strengthen thee no guilt to spare,
Nor leave one act of goodness unrequited.
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