Oft to royal hearts denied.”
RECIT. (accompanied).—BASS
That eve, the Star of Brunswick shone
With stedfast ray benign
On Gotha’s ducal roof, and on
The softly flowing Leine;
Nor failed to gild the spires of Bonn,
And glittered on the Rhine.—
Old Camus too on that prophetic night
Was conscious of the ray;