A sharper lesson than we ever knew.

I hear a thunder though the skies are fair,

But shrill you, loud and long, the warning-note:

Prepare!


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[Lord Tennyson wrote, by Royal request, two stanzas which were sung as part of God Save the Queen at a State concert in connection with the Princess Royal's marriage: these were printed in the Times of January 26, 1858.]

God bless our Prince and Bride!

God keep their lands allied,

God save the Queen!