Yet wheresoe’er my pen I lift
To date the epistolary sheet,
The blest occasion of the gift
Shall make its recollection sweet;
Sent when the star that rules your fates
Hath reached its influence most benign—
When every heart congratulates,
And none more cordially than mine.
So speed my song—marked with the crest
That erst the adventurous Norman[75] wore,