Her queenly voice gives thanks for all, in accents clear and loud.
Three hundred years have passed since then, and many a change is seen;
But, God save England! still we cry, and God save England’s Queen!
H. C. Leonard.
The Feast of Lanterns.
(Being the original of Macaulay’s “Armada.”)
Attend, all ye who wish to hear our noble London’s praise,
I sing of that great Tuesday night that saw her in a blaze,
When the Archbishop’s benison had linked, in bridal chain,