A Christain, with true loyalty impress'd,
Designs a Posy for the Royal breast.
The flower of truth shall dignify his lay,
The hand of Love shall cull the QUEEN'S BOUQUET.
VICTORIA's estimation to express,
"Muitas Saudades" aptly will compress.
What Portuguese concisely thus combine,
No other language can so well define.
Such ardent aspirations of good will,
The bard in loyal subjects would instil;
Or rather all congratulate who feel
For Queen VICTORIA a kindred zeal.
Her Majesty the muse will comprehend:
Let others read what Addison has penn'd:
Or turn to "The Spectator," where we find
The motto, and its import too, combin'd.
The flower of Truth in Zion's garden grows,
And there in everlasting beauty blows.
That Flower, presented in a human frame,
The Rose of Sharon, here from glory came.
But mark the voice of truth, on earth when born,
The heavenly Rose was not without a thorn.
The wise, who all, for this, renounce as dross,
Hereby are taught that they must bear a cross.
This painful verity must be made known
To tenants of a cottage, and a throne.
The greatest monarch must himself deny,
And reverently worship the MOST HIGH.
Man's power is wisely limited by law:
Before JEHOVAH all must stand in awe.
But happily, the Cross, to every heart,
Internal consolation will impart.
She stoops to conquer; by divine decree,
The source of honour is humility.
To legislate for Zion, is to cope
With Heaven's SUPREME, and deify a Pope..
No Jew of old could change the law of God,
The Gentile who presumes, provokes his rod.
The Truth conveys to subjects and to kings,
Obey the LORD alone in sacred things.
This law is HIS who said, I am the truth,
Who therefore claims submission, Royal Youth.
The same exalted everlasting king
Enjoins, To Cæsar civil tribute bring.
But never will HE suffer kings to wear
His crown, or in his Church DOMINION share. Here kings and queens must with their subjects bow; IMMANUEL here no Viceroy will allow.
There JESUS grants to kings authority,
But in the Church, He adds, "It shall NOT be!" For proof, his sacred banner is unfurl'd,
His Law," My Kingdom is not of this World." IN- and Ex-ternally, ALL power divine,
"In heaven, and earth," IMMANUEL says, is mine. His chosen people his behest revere,
And thus respond, with love and godly fear;
Thy kingdom come! thy sovereign will alone
Be done on earth, as round the heavenly throne.
All earthly potentates shall lick the dust,
Bow down to THEE, and none in princes trust.
The government shall on thy shoulders be,
Czars, kings, and queens subservient to THEE.
The people of the land shall dwell alone,
And not be subject to a mundane throne.
Whoever would presume by civil might,
To dictate what in sacred things is right,
Exalts a Pope, uniting Church and State,
Which sound philosophy must deprecate.
The Clergy vainly would attempt to draw
Their pointed arrows from the Jewish law.
But most untenable their borrow'd ground,
Their proud pretensions here are prov'd unsound.
The Bible only forms the Christian's rule,
The standard of the NON-SECTARIAN school.
How readest thou? the sacred Scriptures search;
The BIBLE shall be spread before the Church.
Herein we write no otherwise, indeed,
Than what ye all acknowledge when ye read.
VICTORIA, we must the BIBLE prize,
And from the Sacred Page philosophize.
WHAT right had Jeroboam to erect
At Dan an altar, Zion to reject?
Anointed of the LORD to rule the State,
Could he in sacred matters legislate?
Was not the ruler, and his subjects too,
GOD's constituted laws enjoin'd to do?
The same of king Josiah is express'd,
Of Jewish kings, acknowledg'd as the best.
The latter, whose devotion we record,
Walk'd after the commandments of the LORD.
This prov'd his wisdom, this adorn'd the crown,
The ruler to JEHOVAH bowing down.
The former, with a high and lofty hand,
Presum❜d to legislate in Israel's land.
The latter prov'd a blessing on his throne;
The legislator made his folly known.
From these examples we the virtue see
Of HARRY's vaunted "power to DECREE,"
And Queen VICTORIA'S SUPREMACY.
Had king Josiah claim'd the power SUPREME,
He would as bad as Jeroboam seem.
Posterity would one and all agree,
That both promoted gross IDOLATRY.
IDOLATRY consists in pride of soul,
Above submission to Divine control;
While stooping to the base, degrading law
Impos'd by passion; or a man of straw.
To preach against IDOLATRY at Rome
Is vain, while IDOLS worshiping at home.
IDOLATRY Consists, we clearly see,
In creatures claiming the SUPREMACY :
Who, like Samaritans, profess to serve
JEHOVAH, but their own vain laws observe.
A subject for his Sovereign would compose
A Question to the Bishops to propose.
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