1. Advance your choral motions now, You music-loving lights: This night concludes the nuptial vow, Make this the best of nights: So bravely crown it with your beams That it may live in fame As long as Rhenus or the Thames Are known by either name. 2. Once more again, yet nearer move Your forms at willing view; Such fair effects of joy and love None can express but you. Then revel midst your airy bowers Till all the clouds do sweat, That pleasure may be poured in showers On this triumphant seat. 3. Long since hath lovely Flora thrown Her flowers and garlands here; Rich Ceres all her wealth hath shown, Proud of her dainty cheer. Changed then to human shape, descend, Clad in familiar weed, That every eye may here commend The kind delights you breed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SLEEPY SONG by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. ROSES ALL THE WAY by T. BAKER THE FEAST OF THE DEAD by CHARLOTTE BECKER PSALM 31. IN TE DOMINE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |