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POEMS.

(PUBLISHED 1830.)

TO THE QUEEN.

REVERED, beloved

O you that hold

A nobler office upon earth

Than arms, or power of brain, or birth Could give the warrior kings of old,

Victoria, — since your Royal grace
To one of less desert allows

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base;

And should your greatness, and the care That yokes with empire, yield you time To make demand of modern rhyme

If aught of ancient worth be there;

Then while a sweeter music wakes,

And thro' wild March the throstle calls, Where all about your palace-walls The sun-lit almond-blossom shakes —

Take, Madam, this poor book of song;
For tho' the faults were thick as dust
In vacant chambers, I could trust
Your kindness. May you rule us long,

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