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Tixall Poetry.
Still let them bloom, and still bestow
Some new content upon his race below.
Let their first revolution
Bestow a bride upon his darling son,
And crown those nuptials with a swift increase,
Such as the emptied ark did blesse:
Then, as the storms are more allay'd,
And waves decay'd,
Send out the beauteous blooming maid:
And let that virgin dove bring to her house again,
An olive branch of peace, in triumph o'er the main.
For whom, ye heavens I have ye reserv'd this joy?
Let us behold the man you chose;
How well you can your cares employ,
And to what armes your maid dispose:
Your maid, whom you have chang'd, but cannot lose
Chang'd as the morn into the day,
As virgin snow that melts away,
And, by its kindly moisture, makes new flowers to grow
See then, a bridegroom worthy such a bride!
Never was happy pair so fitly tied;
Never were virtues more allied;
United in a most auspicious hour—
Some new content upon his race below.
Let their first revolution
Bestow a bride upon his darling son,
And crown those nuptials with a swift increase,
Such as the emptied ark did blesse:
Then, as the storms are more allay'd,
And waves decay'd,
Send out the beauteous blooming maid:
And let that virgin dove bring to her house again,
An olive branch of peace, in triumph o'er the main.
For whom, ye heavens I have ye reserv'd this joy?
Let us behold the man you chose;
How well you can your cares employ,
And to what armes your maid dispose:
Your maid, whom you have chang'd, but cannot lose
Chang'd as the morn into the day,
As virgin snow that melts away,
And, by its kindly moisture, makes new flowers to grow
See then, a bridegroom worthy such a bride!
Never was happy pair so fitly tied;
Never were virtues more allied;
United in a most auspicious hour—
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