Classic Poem

Charles Darbyes Coppy taught English

Long whilst we pray and doubtfully would [brin]g
Our wishes and our hopes from Languishing
Our Eyes run ore the Main and Curled Seas
Whilst fayrest of all Objects that Mought pleas
Like blushing Morn and Neptunes Spouse was seen
To rise out of the Ocean Brittans Queen
Rejoycing to make hast to come and t'be
Partaker of New beds Felicety:
Now All to Triumph's raysd, the Creeky strand
Proclayms its Joyfull Ioes ore the Land
Which the Cragd Rock send Ecchoing out of Holes
And from its Concaves whirles up to the Poles:
The Frequent Concurse too Trooping along
Beget in Evry quarterd Street a Throng
And wher somere we turn us, we conclude
The foot paths beaten sore by th'Multetude
Th'Horse Guards in file draw out that Evr[yone]
Mought Bewties Miracle fix eyes upon
And pay from prying Looks Devotion:
No less than when some fiery Commet burns
With Glittring Beam All to Amazement tu[rns]
Or when some New Starr shines and doth a[rise]
Amidst the rest i'th'Orbs of Twinkling Skies
The flock of Common People ope their [eyes]
Ravisht to look and see such Miracles
The stedfast Gazings Gale the seas, yet find
They want not View though fill not up the Mind:
But She herself at first in Pretious Stons
As Saphirs Rubies Sparkling Diamons
And Gold Shines so, She sends the Day to flight
As Unacquainted with such new born light
At which the Sky astonnisht wonders t'see
That Earth produces such a Galexy
Mought Emulate its Starrs and make Compare
With Phebus Rayes, when Those the brightest are
Then Her suite follows what for Riches worth
And Flowr of youth brave Portugall brings forth
And what somever formerly had been
Hid in the entrails of the Sea now's seen
Or happy Bowells of Each Indies Store
Or what seems rosted from the Affrike Shore
Under the Torrid Zone or Lybian Sands
Gatherd together heer Shine at Commands.
The Queen accompanide with such a Train
Set foorward ore the Cristall Liquid Plain
Rallies her forces as Diana led
Her Virgin Nimphs in Dances where shafts sped
So tript the Cretan Gierle ore fields and Grovs
Of fair Idea ther to cherish Loves
Untill at last Apollo meets her Brother
And then They joyn their Choruses together:
The wood Nimphs are inflam'd, those of the Hills
Assemble so that All rejoycing fills
Made up with People of Arcadia plain
And Dryopes their feastings doe maintain
And hand in hand thus Court thir Soveraign:
The English Youth and Portugese so joygn
In Choruses that feet and harts combine
From heavn a shout resounded throogh the Ayre
The Forrest woods new musike now prepare
Whilst neath Triumphant Arch the way with ease
Is trod leads to the Princely Pallaces
Followd with Vowes which did these words express
For ever flourish Katern our Princes:
But now Great King what Augurs need we t'bring
Their Prairs and wishes to this Offering
To Crown this wedding shall I the Dove noat
Flying the Spanish Puttock to thy Coat
In Innocencies dress and free from Gall
Exchanging swarty Lysbon for White Hall
Nor is't in vain I call to mind the Fate
Ulisses underwent: Thou from thy State
Like Him was banished yet now we see
Like Him thou meetst thy Chast Penelope
May bring thee Offspring and those chast Loves cherish
May faun Thee mutuall Comforts nere to perish
What shall we hope of Dowre? Such lucky Dooms
Makes England truly rich when Tagus comes
To wed with Tamasis and to the Bandes
Of Matriminy brings its goulden sands:
Henceforth let All Prognosticators led
By This or t'other Star be silenced
This Year of wonder certains more betide
When Charles is coupled to his fairest Bride
Foretould Above whence Powrs Divine had guiven
This certain rule that Mariage comes from Heaven
Hither then (best of Kings) we hurried fly
With our Ambitious prayrs that Progeny
From your most happy bed may spring to sway
The British Scepter in Successive way
So long as Titan Cleer and Cynthia bright
Guive light unto the Day and to the Night.