ODES.
AN ODE,
Occasioned by his Excellency the Earl of Stanhope's Voyage to France, 1718.
I.
Fair daughter once of Windsor's woods,
In safety o'er the rolling floods
Britannia's boast and darling care,
Big with the fate of Europe, bear! 4
May winds propitious on his way
The minister of peace convey,
Nor rebel wave nor rising storms
Great George's liquid realms deform. 8
Fair daughter once of Windsor's woods,
In safety o'er the rolling floods
Britannia's boast and darling care,
Big with the fate of Europe, bear! 4
May winds propitious on his way
The minister of peace convey,
Nor rebel wave nor rising storms
Great George's liquid realms deform. 8
II.
Our vows are heard; thy crowded sails
Already swell with western gales,
Already Albion's coast retires,
And Calais multiplies her spires. 12
At length has royal Orleans prest
With open arms the wellknown guest,
Before in sacred friendship join'd,
And now in counsels for mankind. 16
Our vows are heard; thy crowded sails
Already swell with western gales,
Already Albion's coast retires,
And Calais multiplies her spires. 12
At length has royal Orleans prest
With open arms the wellknown guest,
Before in sacred friendship join'd,
And now in counsels for mankind. 16
