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$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$No less effects than these we may
Be assur'd of from that powerful ray,
Which could outface the sun, and overcome the day.

Auspicious star! again arise,
And take thy noon-tide station in the skies,
Again all heaven prodigiously adorn;
For, lo! thy Charles again is born.
He then was born with and to pain;
With and to joy he's born again.
And, wisely for this second birth,
By which thou certain wert to bless
The land with full and flourishing happiness,
Thou mad'st of that fair month thy choice,
In which heaven, air, and sea, and earth,
And all that's in them, all, does smile and does rejoice.
'T was a right season; and the very ground
Ought with a face of paradise to be found,
Then, when we were to entertain
Felicity and innocence again.

Shall we again (good Heaven!) that blessed pair behold,
Which the abused people fondly sold
For the bright fruit of the forbidden tree,
By seeking all like Gods to be?
Will Peace her halcyon nest venture to build
Upon a shore with shipwrecks fill'd,