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<HEAD>The Queen's Birth-day SONG. <HI>APRIL</HI> 30. 1691.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<L>WElcome, welcome, glorious Morn,</L>
<L>Nature &s;miles at thy return;</L>
<L>At thy return the joyful Earth</L>
<L>Renews the Ble&s;&s;ings of <HI>Maria</HI>'s Birth;</L>
<L>The bu&s;ie Sun prolongs his Race,</L>
<L>The youthful Year his earlie&s;t Tribute pays,</L>
<L>And Fro&s;ts for&s;ake her Head, and Tears her Face.</L>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chor.</NOTE><HI>Welcome, welcome, glorious Morn,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nature &s;miles at thy return,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For Nature's riche&s;t Pride with thee was born.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>Welcome as when three happy Kingdoms &s;trove</L>
<L>In glad confu&s;ion to expre&s;s their Love;</L>
<L>When every Heart did every Tongue employ,</L>
<L>To &s;peak its &s;hare of Publick Joy,</L>
<L>And great <HI>Maria</HI>'s Birth became</L>
<L>The noble&s;t Theme and loude&s;t Song of Fame.</L>
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>The Mighty Godde&s;s of this wealthy I&s;le</L>
<L>Rais'd her glad Head, and with an awful &s;mile,</L>
<L>She look'd, whil&s;t Thou&s;and <HI>Cupids</HI> hover'd round,</L>
<L>And thou&s;and Graces the fair Infant crown'd.</L>
<L>Full of Wonder and Delight</L>
<L>She &s;aw and ble&s;t the Noble &s;ight.</L>
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<L>And lo! a &s;acred Fury &s;well'd her Brea&s;t,</L>
<L>And the whole God her labouring Soul po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>To lofty Strains, her tuneful Lyre &s;he &s;trung,</L>
<L>And thus the Godde&s;s play'd, and thus &s;he &s;ung.</L>
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<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>My Prayers are heard; Heaven has at la&s;t be&s;tow'd</L>
<L>The mighty Ble&s;&s;ings which it long has ow'd;</L>
<L>At la&s;t the bounteous Gods hath &s;ent us down</L>
<L>A Brightne&s;s &s;econd only to their own.</L>
<L>I &s;ee the round years &s;ucce&s;&s;ively more,</L>
<L>To ripen her Beauties, and Crown them with Love.</L>
<L>A Hero Renown'd in Virtue and Arms</L>
<L>Shall wear the &s;oft Chain and &s;ubmit to her Charms;</L>
<L>And <HI>Hymen</HI> and <HI>Hebe</HI> &s;hall make it their Care,</L>
<L>To pour all their Joys on the Valiant and Fair.</L>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chor.</NOTE><HI>Then, then our &s;ad</HI> Albion <HI>&s;hall &s;uffer no more,</HI></L>
<L><HI>She &s;hall fly to his Air and be freed by his Power,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And date all her Ble&s;&s;ings from this happy hour.</HI></L>
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<L>He to the Field by Honour call'd &s;hall go,</L>
<L>And dangers he &s;hall meet, and wonders he &s;hall do;</L>
<L>The God of Arms his God-like Son &s;hall ble&s;s,</L>
<L>And Crown his Fleets and Armies with &s;ucce&s;s:</L>
<L>Whil&s;t undi&s;turbed his happy Con&s;ort Reigns,</L>
<L>And wi&s;ely Rules the Kingdoms he maintains.</L>
<L><HI>Britain</HI> at la&s;t &s;hall &s;ee her Peace Re&s;tor'd,</L>
<L>And pay new Vows for her returning Lord.</L>
<L><HI>Maria</HI> then &s;hall all her Cares unbend,</L>
<L>And &s;he &s;hall &s;till Adorn, and he Defent.</L>
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<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chor.</NOTE><HI>Sound all ye Spheres, confirm the Omen Heaven,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And long pre&s;erve the Ble&s;&s;ings thou ha&s;t giv'n.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed, and are to be &s;old by <HI>Randal Taylor</HI> near <HI>Stationers-Hall.</HI> 1691.</P>
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