Strange mystery of God which set
Upon her brow yon coronet,—
The foremost crown
Of all the earth on one so fair!
That chose her to it from her birth,
And bade the sons of all the earth
To her bow down.”
Although the closing passage in her Majesty’s speech is that to which we confine our attention, as the speech itself is very brief, we give it entire:
“I receive with the greatest satisfaction the address which you have presented to me on the opening of this Exhibition.
“I have observed with a warm and increasing interest the progress of your proceedings in the execution of the duties intrusted to you by the Royal Commission; and it affords me sincere gratification to witness the successful result of your judicious and unremitting exertions in THE SPLENDID SPECTACLE by which I am this day surrounded.