Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 — Britannia Rediviva

A POEM ON THE PRINCE, BORN JUNE 10, 1688.

Our vows are heard betimes!

and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

Just on the day, when the high-mounted Sun Did furthest in his northern progress run, He bended forward, and even stretch'd the sphere Beyond the limits of the lengthen'd year, To view a brighter sun in Britain born;

That was the business of his longest morn; 10 The glorious object seen, 'twas time to turn.

Departing Spring could only stay to shed Her bloomy beauties on the genial bed, But left the manly Summer in her stead, With timely fruit the longing land to cheer, And to fulfil the promise of the year.

Betwixt two seasons comes the auspicious heir, This age to blossom, and the next to bear.

Last solemn Sabbath[161] saw the Church attend, The Paraclete in fiery pomp descend; 20 But when his wondrous octave[162] roll'd again, He brought a royal infant in his train.

So great a blessing to so good a king, None but the Eternal Comforter could bring.

Or did the mighty Trinity conspire, As once in council, to create our sire?

It seems as if they sent the new-born guest To wait on the procession of their feast;

And on their sacred anniverse decreed To stamp their image on the promised seed.

30 Three realms united, and on one bestow'd, An emblem of their mystic union show'd: The Mighty Trine the triple empire shared, As every person would have one to guard.

Hail, son of prayers!

by holy violence Drawn down from heaven; but long be banish'd thence, And late to thy paternal skies retire: To mend our crimes, whole ages would require;

To change the inveterate habit of our sins, And finish what thy godlike sire begins.

40 Kind Heaven, to make us Englishmen again, No less can give us than a patriarch's reign.

The sacred cradle to your charge receive, Ye seraphs, and by turns the guard relieve;

Thy father's angel, and thy father join, To keep possession, and secure the line;

But long defer the honours of thy fate: Great may they be like his, like his be late;

That James this running century may view, And give his son an auspice to the new.

50 Our wants exact at least that moderate stay: For see the Dragon[163] winged on his way, To watch the travail,[164] and devour the prey.

Or, if allusions may not rise so high, Thus, when Alcides[165] raised his infant cry, The snakes besieged his young divinity: But vainly with their forked tongues they threat;

For opposition makes a hero great.

To needful succour all the good will run, 60 And Jove assert the godhead of his son.

O still repining at your present state, Grudging yourselves the benefits of fate, Look up, and read in characters of light A blessing sent you in your own despite.

The manna falls, yet that celestial bread Like Jews you munch, and murmur while you feed.

May not your fortune be, like theirs, exiled, Yet forty years to wander in the wild!

Or if it be, may Moses live at least, 70 To lead you to the verge of promised rest!

Though poets are not prophets, to foreknow What plants will take the blight, and what will grow, By tracing Heaven, his footsteps may be found: Behold!

how awfully he walks the round!

God is abroad, and, wondrous in his ways, The rise of empires, and their fall surveys;

More, might I say, than with an usual eye, He sees his bleeding church in ruin lie, And hears the souls of saints beneath his altar cry.

80 Already has he lifted high the Sign,[166] Which crown'd the conquering arms of Constantine;

The Moon[167] grows pale at that presaging sight, And half her train of stars have lost their light.

Behold another Sylvester,[168] to bless The sacred standard, and secure success;

Large of his treasures, of a soul so great, As fills and crowds his universal seat.

Now view at home a second Constantine;

(The former too was of the British line;)[169] 90 Has not his healing balm your breaches closed, Whose exile many sought, and few opposed?

Or, did not Heaven by its eternal doom Permit those evils, that this good might come?

So manifest, that even the moon-eyed sects See whom and what this Providence protects.

Methinks, had we within our minds no more Than that one shipwreck on the fatal Ore,[170] That only thought may make us think again, What wonders God reserves for such a reign.

100 To dream that Chance his preservation wrought, Were to think Noah was preserved for nought;

Or the surviving eight were not design'd To people Earth, and to restore their kind.

When humbly on the royal babe we gaze, The manly lines of a majestic face Give awful joy: 'tis Paradise to look On the fair frontispiece of Nature's book: If the first opening page so charms the sight, Think how the unfolded volume will delight!

110 See how the venerable infant lies In early pomp; how through the mother's eyes The father's soul, with an undaunted view, Looks out, and takes our homage as his due.

See on his future subjects how he smiles, Nor meanly flatters, nor with craft beguiles;

But with an open face, as on his throne, Assures our birthrights, and assumes his own.

Born in broad day-light, that the ungrateful rout May find no room for a remaining doubt; 120 Truth, which itself is light, does darkness shun, And the true eaglet safely dares the sun.

Fain would the fiends[171] have made a dubious birth, Loath to confess the Godhead clothed in earth: But sicken'd, after all their baffled lies, To find an heir-apparent of the skies: Abandon'd to despair, still may they grudge, And, owning not the Saviour, prove the judge.

Not great Æneas[172] stood in plainer day, When, the dark mantling mist dissolved away, 130 He to the Tyrians show'd his sudden face, Shining with all his goddess mother's grace: For she herself had made his countenance bright, Breathed honour on his eyes, and her own purple light.

If our victorious Edward,[173] as they say, Gave Wales a prince on that propitious day, Why may not years, revolving with his fate, Produce his like, but with a longer date;

One, who may carry to a distant shore The terror that his famed forefather bore?

140 But why should James or his young hero stay For slight presages of a name or day?

We need no Edward's fortune to adorn That happy moment when our prince was born: Our prince adorns his day, and ages hence Shall wish his birth-day for some future prince.

Great Michael, prince of all the ethereal hosts, And whate'er inborn saints our Britain boasts;

And thou, the adopted patron of our isle,[174] With cheerful aspects on this infant smile: 150 The pledge of Heaven, which, dropping from above, Secures our bliss, and reconciles his love.

Enough of ills our dire rebellion wrought, When to the dregs we drank the bitter draught;

Then airy atoms did in plagues conspire, Nor did the avenging angel yet retire, But purged our still increasing crimes with fire, Then perjured plots, the still impending Test, And worse--but charity conceals the rest: Here stop the current of the sanguine flood; 160 Require not, gracious God, thy martyrs' blood;

But let their dying pangs, their living toil, Spread a rich harvest through their native soil: A harvest ripening for another reign, Of which this royal babe may reap the grain.

Enough of early saints one womb has given;

Enough increased the family of Heaven: Let them for his and our atonement go;

And, reigning blest above, leave him to rule below.

Enough already has the year foreshow'd 170 His wonted course, the sea has overflow'd, The meads were floated with a weeping spring, And frighten'd birds in woods forgot to sing: The strong-limb'd steed beneath his harness faints, And the same shivering sweat his lord attaints.

When will the minister of wrath give o'er?

Behold him at Araunah's threshing-floor:[175] He stops, and seems to sheathe his flaming brand, Pleased with burnt incense from our David's hand.

David has bought the Jebusite's abode, 180 And raised an altar to the living God.

Heaven, to reward him, makes his joys sincere;

No future ills nor accidents appear, To sully and pollute the sacred infant's year.

Five months to discord and debate were given: He sanctifies the yet remaining seven.

Sabbath of months!

henceforth in him be blest, And prelude to the realm's perpetual rest!

Let his baptismal drops for us atone;

Lustrations for offences not his own.

190 Let Conscience, which is Interest ill disguised, In the same font be cleansed, and all the land baptized.

Unnamed as yet;[176] at least unknown to fame: Is there a strife in Heaven about his name, Where every famous predecessor vies, And makes a faction for it in the skies?

Or must it be reserved to thought alone?

Such was the sacred Tetragrammaton.

[177] Things worthy silence must not be reveal'd;

Thus the true name of Rome was kept conceal'd,[178] To shun the spells and sorceries of those 200 Who durst her infant majesty oppose.

But when his tender strength in time shall rise To dare ill tongues, and fascinating eyes;

This isle, which hides the little Thunderer's fame, Shall be too narrow to contain his name: The artillery of heaven shall make him known;

Crete[179] could not hold the god, when Jove was grown.

As Jove's increase, who from his brain was born,[180] Whom arms and arts did equally adorn, 210 Free of the breast was bred, whose milky taste Minerva's name to Venus had debased;

So this imperial babe rejects the food That mixes monarch's with plebeian blood: Food that his inborn courage might control, Extinguish all the father in his soul, And, for his Estian race, and Saxon strain, Might reproduce some second Richard's reign.

Mildness he shares from both his parents' blood: But kings too tame are despicably good: 220 Be this the mixture of this regal child, By nature manly, but by virtue mild.

Thus far the furious transport of the news Had to prophetic madness fired the Muse;

Madness ungovernable, uninspired, Swift to foretell whatever she desired.

Was it for me the dark abyss to tread, And read the book which angels cannot read?

How was I punish'd, when the sudden blast,[181] The face of heaven, and our young sun o'ercast!

230 Fame, the swift ill, increasing as she roll'd, Disease, despair, and death, at three reprises told;

At three insulting strides she stalk'd the town, And, like contagion, struck the loyal down.

Down fell the winnow'd wheat; but, mounted high, The whirlwind bore the chaff, and hid the sky.

Here black rebellion shooting from below (As earth's gigantic brood by moments grow[182]) And here the sons of God are petrified with woe: An apoplex of grief: so low were driven 240 The saints, as hardly to defend their heaven.

As, when pent vapours run their hollow round, Earthquakes, which are convulsions of the ground, Break bellowing forth, and no confinement brook, Till the third settles what the former shook;

Such heavings had our souls; till, slow and late, Our life with his return'd, and Faith prevail'd on Fate.

By prayers the mighty blessing was implored, To prayers was granted, and by prayers restored.

So, ere the Shunamite[183] a son conceived, 250 The prophet promised, and the wife believed.

A son was sent, the son so much desired;

But soon upon the mother's knees expired.

The troubled seer approach'd the mournful door, Ran, pray'd, and sent his pastoral staff before, Then stretch'd his limbs upon the child, and mourn'd, Thus Mercy stretches out her hand, and saves Desponding Peter sinking in the waves.

As when a sudden storm of hail and rain 260 Beats to the ground the yet unbearded grain, Think not the hopes of harvest are destroy'd On the flat field, and on the naked void;

The light unloaded stem, from tempest freed, Will raise the youthful honours of his head;

And soon, restored by native vigour, bear The timely product of the bounteous year.

Nor yet conclude all fiery trials past: For Heaven will exercise us to the last;

Sometimes will check us in our full career, 270 With doubtful blessings, and with mingled fear;

That, still depending on his daily grace, His every mercy for an alms may pass, With sparing hands will diet us to good;

Preventing surfeits of our pamper'd blood.

So feeds the mother bird her craving young With little morsels, and delays them long.

True, this last blessing was a royal feast;

But where's the wedding-garment on the guest?

Our manners, as religion were a dream, 280 Are such as teach the nations to blaspheme.

In lusts we wallow, and with pride we swell, And injuries with injuries repel;

Prompt to revenge, not daring to forgive, Our lives unteach the doctrine we believe.

Thus Israel sinn'd, impenitently hard, And vainly thought the present ark their guard;[184] But when the haughty Philistines appear, They fled, abandon'd to their foes and fear;

Their God was absent, though his ark was there.

290 Ah!

lest our crimes should snatch this pledge away, And make our joys the blessings of a day!

For we have sinn'd him hence, and that he lives, God to his promise, not our practice gives.

Our crimes would soon weigh down the guilty scale, But James and Mary, and the Church, prevail.

Nor Amalek can rout the chosen bands,[185] While Hur and Aaron hold up Moses' hands.

By living well, let us secure his days;

Moderate in hopes, and humble in our ways, 300 No force the free-born spirit can constrain, But charity and great examples gain.

Forgiveness is our thanks for such a day: 'Tis god-like God in his own coin to pay.

But you, propitious queen, translated here, From your mild heaven, to rule our rugged sphere, Beyond the sunny walks, and circling year: You, who your native climate have bereft Of all the virtues, and the vices left;

Whom piety and beauty make their boast, 310 Though beautiful is well in pious lost;

So lost, as star-light is dissolved away, And melts into the brightness of the day;

Or gold about the regal diadem, Lost to improve the lustre of the gem.

What can we add to your triumphant day?

Let the great gift the beauteous giver pay.

For should our thanks awake the rising sun, And lengthen, as his latest shadows run, That, though the longest day, would soon, too soon be done.

320 Let angels' voices with their harps conspire, But keep the auspicious infant from the quire;

Late let him sing above, and let us know No sweeter music than his cries below.

Nor can I wish to you, great Monarch, more Than such an annual income to your store;

The day which gave this Unit, did not shine For a less omen, than to fill the Trine.

After a prince, an admiral beget;

The Royal Sovereign wants an anchor yet.

330 Our isle has younger titles still in store, And when the exhausted land can yield no more, Your line can force them from a foreign shore.

The name of Great your martial mind will suit;

But justice is your darling attribute: Of all the Greeks, 'twas but one hero's[186] due, And, in him, Plutarch prophesied of you.

A prince's favours but on few can fall, But justice is a virtue shared by all.

Some kings the name of conquerors have assumed, 340 Some to be great, some to be gods presumed;

But boundless power and arbitrary lust Made tyrants still abhor the name of just;

They shunn'd the praise this godlike virtue gives, And fear'd a title that reproach'd their lives.

The Power, from which all kings derive their state, Whom they pretend, at least, to imitate, Is equal both to punish and reward;

For few would love their God, unless they fear'd. Resistless force and immortality 350 Make but a lame, imperfect, deity: Tempests have force unbounded to destroy, And deathless being, even the damn'd enjoy;

And yet Heaven's attributes, both last and first, One without life, and one with life accurst: But justice is Heaven's self, so strictly he, That could it fail, the Godhead could not be.

This virtue is your own; but life and state Are one to Fortune subject, one to Fate: Equal to all, you justly frown or smile; 360 Nor hopes nor fears your steady hand beguile;

Yourself our balance hold, the world's our isle.

* * * * * FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 161: 'Solemn Sabbath:' Whit-Sunday.

] [Footnote 162: 'Wondrous octave:' Trinity Sunday.

] [Footnote 163: 'The Dragon:' alluding only to the Commonwealth party, here and in other places of the poem.

] [Footnote 164: 'The travail:' see Rev. xii.

4. ] [Footnote 165: 'Alcides:' Hercules.

] [Footnote 166: 'Sign:' the sign of the cross, as denoting the Roman Catholic faith.

] [Footnote 167: 'The moon:' the Turkish crescent.

] [Footnote 168: 'Another Sylvester:' the Pope in James II.'

s time is here compared to him that governed the Romish Church in the time of Constantine.

] [Footnote 169: 'British line:' St Helen, mother of Constantine the Great, was an Englishwoman.

] [Footnote 170: 'Fatal Ore:' the sandbank on which the Duke of York had like to have been lost in 1682, on his voyage to Scotland, is known by the name of Lemman Ore.

] [Footnote 171: 'Fiends:' the malcontents who doubted the truth of the birth are here compared to the evil spirits that tempted our Saviour in the wilderness.

] [Footnote 172: 'Æneas:' see Virgil; Æneid, I. ] [Footnote 173: 'Edward:' Edward the Black Prince, born on Trinity Sunday.

] [Footnote 174: 'Patron of our isle': St George.

] [Footnote 175: 'Araunah's threshing-floor:' alluding to the passage in 1 Kings xxiv.

] [Footnote 176: 'Unnamed as yet:' the prince was christened but not named when this poem was published.

] [Footnote 177: 'Tetragrammaton:' Jehovah, or the name of God, unlawful to be pronounced by the Jews.

] [Footnote 178: 'Rome was kept concealed:' some authors say, that the true name of Rome was kept a secret.

] [Footnote 179: 'Crete:' Candia, where Jupiter was born and bred secretly.

] [Footnote 180: 'Brain was born:' Pallas or Minerva, said by the poets to have sprung from the brain of Jove, and to have been bred up by hand, as was this young prince.

] [Footnote 181: 'Sudden blast:' the sudden false report of the prince's death.

] [Footnote 182: 'Moments grow:' those giants are feigned to have grown fifteen yards every day.

] [Footnote 183: 'Shunamite:' see 2 Kings iv.

] [Footnote 184: 'Ark their guard:' see 1 Sam.

iv.

10. ] [Footnote 185: 'Amalek can rout the chosen bands:' see Exod.

xviii.

8. ] [Footnote 186: Aristides, surnamed the Just.

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