Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry, and King Henry of Navarre.
T. B. Macaulay.
The War of the Normas.
Now glory to La Diva who still reigns the Queen of Song,
And glory, too, to Costa, may he wield the bâton long.
Now let the distant sound of song, and echo of the band,
Be heard through Covent Garden, and Long Acre, and the Strand.
And thou, too, Morning Chronicle, bold partisan of Beale,
As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our weal.
For ill-advised was Jenny, when she thought to reach the throne