Of ev'ry kinde, their closed Leaves display;

And (as it were) with new-recover'd hopes,

Attend upon the Ruler of the Day.

Againe, when either in the West he shrowds

His Rayes below this Horizon, or hides

His Face behinde the Curtaines of the Cloudes;

They lose their beauties, and abate their prides.

Thus fares it with a Nation, and their King,

'Twixt whom there is a native Sympathy.

His Presence, and his Favours, like the Spring,