A month that owns an interest in your name: You and the flowers are its peculiar claim.[64] That star, that at your birth shone out so bright, It stained the duller sun's meridian light, Did once again its potent fires renew,[65] Guiding our eyes to find and worship you. And now Time's whiter series is begun, Which in soft centuries shall smoothly run: Those clouds, that overcast your morn, shall fly, Dispelled, to farthest corners of the sky. Our nation, with united interest blest, Not now content to poize, shall sway the rest. Abroad your empire shall no limits know, But, like the sea, in boundless circles flow; Your much-loved fleet shall, with a wide command, Besiege the petty monarchs of the land; And, as old Time his offspring swallowed down,[66] Our ocean in its depths all seas shall drown. Their wealthy trade from pirates' rapine free, Our merchants shall no more adventurers be; Nor in the farthest east those dangers fear, Which humble Holland must dissemble here. Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes; For, what the powerful takes not, he bestows: And France, that did an exile's presence fear,[67] May justly apprehend you still too near. At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. The discontented now are only they, Whose crimes before did your just cause betray; Of those your edicts some reclaim from sin, But most your life and blest example win. Oh happy prince, whom heaven hath taught the way By paying vows to have more vows to pay! Oh happy age! Oh times like those alone, By fate reserved for great Augustus' throne! When the joint growth of arms and arts foreshew The world a monarch, and that monarch you. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 35: Note I.] [Footnote 36: Note II.] [Footnote 37: Note III.] [Footnote 38: Note IV.] [Footnote 39: Note V.] [Footnote 40: Note VI.] [Footnote 41: Note VII.] [Footnote 42: Henry IV. of France, maternal grandfather of Charles II.] [Footnote 43: Note VIII.] [Footnote 44: First edition, _epoches_.] [Footnote 45: This mode of forming the genitive is adopted from the first edition, as smoother than "Charles's."] [Footnote 46: Note IX.] [Footnote 47: Note X.] [Footnote 48: Note XI.] [Footnote 49: Note XII.] [Footnote 50: Note XIII.] [Footnote 51: Salmoneus, tyrant of Elis made such a contrivance to imitate thunder, for which he was destroyed with lightning by Jupiter; which is here fancifully compared to the military terrors, by which the fanatics supported their religious tenets.] [Footnote 52: Note XIV.] [Footnote 53: Note XV.] [Footnote 54: First edition has, "like glass."] [Footnote 55: Note XVI.] [Footnote 56: Note XVII.] [Footnote 57: Note XVIII.] [Footnote 58: So the first edition; the others read standards. The royal standard is meant.] [Footnote 59: Note XIX.] [Footnote 60: Note XX.]