ON
THE
BIRTH
OF
GEORGE
PRINCE
OF
WALES
.
WRITTEN
AFTER
AN
INSTALLATION
AT
WINDSOR
,
MDCCLXII
.
BY
THE
SAME
.
IMperial
dome
of
Edward
wise
and
brave
!
Where
warlike
Honour's
brightest
banners
wave
;
At
whose
proud
tilts
,
unmatch'd
for
hardy
deeds
,
Heroic
kings
have
frown'd
on
barbed
steeds
:
Tho'
now
no
more
thy
crested
chiefs
advance
In
arm'd
array
,
nor
grasp
the
glittering
lance
;
Tho'
knighthood
boasts
the
martial
pomp
no
more
,
That
grac'd
its
gorgeous
festivals
of
yore
;
Say
,
stately
dome
,
if
e'er
thy
marshall'd
knights
So
nobly
deck'd
their
old
majestic
rites
,
As
when
,
high-thron'd
amid
thy
trophied
shrine
,
George
shone
the
leader
of
the
garter'd
line
?
Yet
future
triumphs
,
Windsor
,
still
remain
;
Still
may
thy
bowers
receive
as
brave
a
train
:
For
lo
!
to
Britain
and
her
favour'd
pair
,
Heaven's
high
command
has
sent
a
sacred
heir
!
Him
,
the
bold
pattern
of
his
patriot
sire
,
Shall
fill
with
early
fame
immortal
fire
:
In
life's
fresh
spring
,
e'er
buds
the
promis'd
prime
His
thoughts
shall
mount
to
virtue's
meed
sublime
:
The
patriot
sire
shall
catch
with
sure
presage
Each
liberal
omen
of
his
opening
age
;
Then
to
thy
courts
shall
lead
,
with
conscious
joy
,
In
stripling
beauty's
bloom
the
princely
boy
;
There
firmly
wreath
the
braid
of
heavenly
die
,
True
Valour's
badge
around
his
tender
thigh
.
Meantime
,
thy
royal
piles
that
rise
elate
With
many
an
antique
tower
,
in
massy
state
,
In
the
young
champion's
musing
mind
shall
raise
Vast
images
of
Albion's
elder
days
.
While
,
as
around
his
eager
glance
explores
Thy
chambers
rough
with
war's
constructed
stores
,
Rude
helms
,
and
bruised
shields
,
barbaric
spoils
Of
ancient
chivalry's
undaunted
toils
;
Amid
the
dusky
trappings
hung
on
high
,
Young
Edward's
sable
mail
shall
strike
his
eye
:
Shall
fire
the
youth
,
to
crown
his
riper
years
With
rival
Cressys
,
and
a
new
Poictiers
;
On
the
same
wall
,
the
same
triumphal
base
,
His
own
victorious
monument
to
place
.
Nor
can
a
fairer
kindred
title
move
His
emulative
age
to
glory's
love
,
Than
Edward
,
laureat
prince
.
In
letter'd
truth
,
Oxford
,
sage
mother
,
school'd
this
studious
youth
:
Her
simple
institutes
,
and
rigid
lore
,
The
royal
nursling
unreluctant
bore
;
Nor
shunn'd
,
at
pensive
eve
,
with
lonesome
pace
The
moonlight
cloyster's
checquer'd
floor
to
trace
;
Nor
scorn'd
to
mark
the
sun
,
at
mattins
due
,
Stream
thro'
the
storied
window's
holy
hue
.
And
O
,
young
prince
,
be
thine
his
moral
praise
;
Nor
seek
in
fields
of
blood
his
warrior
bays
.
War
has
its
charms
terrisic
.
Far
and
wide
When
stands
th'
embattled
host
in
banner'd
pride
;
O'er
the
vext
plain
when
the
shrill
clangors
run
,
And
the
long
phalanx
flashes
in
the
sun
;
When
now
no
dangers
of
the
deathful
day
Mar
the
bright
scene
,
nor
break
the
firm
array
:
Full
oft
,
too
rashly
glows
with
fond
delight
The
youthful
breast
,
and
asks
the
future
fight
;
Nor
knows
that
Horror's
form
,
a
spectre
wan
,
Stalks
yet
unseen
along
the
gleamy
van
.
May
no
such
rage
be
thine
:
no
dazzling
ray
Of
specious
fame
thy
stedfast
feet
betray
.
Be
thine
domestic
glory's
radiant
calm
,
Be
thine
the
scepter
wreath'd
with
many
a
palm
,
Be
thine
the
throne
with
peaceful
emblems
hung
,
The
silver
lyre
to
milder
conquest
strung
!
Instead
of
glorious
feats
atchiev'd
in
arms
,
Bid
rising
arts
display
their
mimic
charms
:
Just
to
thy
country's
fame
,
in
tranquil
days
,
Record
the
past
,
and
rouse
to
future
praise
:
Before
the
public
eye
,
in
breathing
brass
,
Bid
thy
fam'd
father's
mighty
triumphs
pass
:
Swell
the
broad
arch
with
haughty
Cuba's
fall
,
And
cloath
with
Minden's
plain
th'
historic
hall
.
Then
mourn
not
,
Edward's
dome
,
thine
ancient
boast
,
They
tournaments
,
and
listed
combats
lost
!
From
Arthur's
board
,
no
more
,
proud
castle
,
mourn
Adventurous
Valour's
Gothic
trophies
torn
!
Those
elfin
charms
,
that
held
in
magic
night
Its
elder
fame
,
and
dimm'd
its
genuine
light
,
At
length
dissolve
in
Truth's
meridian
ray
,
And
the
bright
order
bursts
to
purer
day
:
The
mystic
round
,
begirt
with
bolder
peers
,
On
virtue's
base
its
rescued
glory
rears
;
Sees
civil
prowess
mightier
acts
atchieve
,
Sees
meek
humanity
distress
relieve
;
Adopts
the
worth
that
bids
the
conflict
cease
,
And
claims
its
honours
from
the
chiefs
of
peace
,