Ay, every inch a king.
The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness.
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them.
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main waters.
We are enforc'd to farm our royal realm;
The revenue whereof shall furnish us
For our affairs in hand.
Let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings:
How some have been depos'd, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.
Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd,
All murder'd.
Yet looks he like a king; behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
Controlling majesty.
I give this heavy weight from off my head,
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
With mine own tears I wash away my value,
With mine own bands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duteous oaths.
The king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse party want.
Kings are like stare—they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work!
God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York!
Horace and James Smith—Rejected Addresses. Loyal Effusion. L. 1.
A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign power,
Like other baubles in tbe Tower:
Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
And so continues till he dies.
Swift—On Poetry. L. 191.
Hener was the hero-king,
Heaven-born, dear to us,
Showing his shield
A shelter for peace.
Esaias Twiner—Fridthjof's Saga. Canto
XXI. St. 7.
Broad-based upon her people's will.
And compassed by the inviolate sea.
| author = Tennyson
| work = To the Queen. St. 9.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Wordsworth)
In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Idylls of the King. Dedication.
L. 26.
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing
them.
Thackeray—Round Head Papers. On Ribbons.
Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.
The king reigns but does not govern.
Thiers. In an early number of the National,
a newspaper under the direction of himself
and his political friends six months before
the dissolution of the monarchy. July 1,
1830. Jan Zamoyskl in the Polish and
Hungarian Diets.
| seealso = (See also Bismarck)
Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;
Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aieux.
The first king was a successful soldier;
He who serves well his country has no need of
ancestors.
Voltaire—Merope. I. 3.
Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped—to gird
An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne
Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations he
In veneration and the people's love.
Wordsworth—Excursion. Bk. IV.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Tennyson)
A partial world will listen to my lays,
While Anna reigns, and sets a female name
Unrival'd in the glorious lists of fame.
Young—Force of Religion. Bk. I. L. 6.
RUIN
Should the whole frame of nature round him
break
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world.
| author = Addison
| work = Horace. Ode III. Bk. III.
And when 'midst fallen London they survey
The stone where Alexander's ashes lay,
Shall own with humble pride the lesson just
By Time's slow finger written in the dust.
Mrs. Baubauld—Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
| seealso = (See also Goldsmith, London Magazine, Macaulay, Shelley, Volney, Walpole, White)
| topic = Ruin
| page = 686
}}
{{Hoyt Ruin
| num = 22
| text = <poem>There is a temple in ruin stands,
Fashion'd by long forgotten hands:
Two or three columns, and many a stone,
Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown!
While in the progress of their long decay,
Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
