The Queen's Birth-day SONG. APRIL 30. 1691.  

I.  
WElcome, welcome, glorious Morn,  
Nature smiles at thy return;  
At thy return the joyful Earth  
Renews the Blessings of Maria's Birth;  
The busy Sun prolongs his Race,  
The youthful Year his earliest Tribute pays,  
And Frosts forsake her Head, and Tears her Face.   


Chor.  Welcome, welcome, glorious Morn,  
Nature smiles at thy return,  
For Nature's richest Pride with thee was born.   

II.  
Welcome as when three happy Kingdoms striven  
In glad confusion to express their Love;  
When every Heart did every Tongue employ,  
To speak its share of public Joy,  
And great Maria's Birth became  
The noblest Theme and loudest Song of famed.   

III.  
The Mighty Goddess of this wealthy Isle  
raised her glad Head, and with an aweful smile,  
She looked, whilst Thousand Cupids hovered round,  
And thousand Graces the fair Infant crowned.  
Full of Wonder and Delight  
She saw and blessed the Noble sight.  
And lo! a sacred Fury swelled her Breast,  
And the whole God her labouring Soul possessed  
To lofty Strains, her tuneful Lyre she strung,  
And thus the Goddess played, and thus she sung.   

IV.  
My Prayers are heard; Heaven has at last bestowed  
The mighty Blessings which it long has owed;  
At last the bounteous Gods hath sent us down  
A Brightness second only to their own.  
I see the round years successively more,  
To ripen her Beauties, and Crown them with Love.  
A Hero renowned in Virtue and Arms  
Shall wear the soft Chain and submit to her Charms;  
And Hymen and Hebe shall make it their Care,  
To pour all their Joys on the Valiant and Fair.   


Chor.  Then, then our sad Albion shall suffer no more,  
She shall fly to his Air and be freed by his Power,  
And date all her Blessings from this happy hour.   

He to the Field by Honour called shall go,  
And dangers he shall meet, and wonders he shall do;  
The God of Arms his God-like Son shall bless,  
And Crown his Fleets and Armies with success:  
Whilst undisturbed his happy Consort Reigns,  
And wisely Rules the Kingdoms he maintains.  
Britain at last shall see her Peace restored,  
And pay new Vows for her returning Lord.  
Maria then shall all her Cares unbend,  
And she shall still Adorn, and he Defent.   


Chor.  Sound all ye Spheres, confirm the Omen Heaven,  
And long preserve the Blessings thou hast given.    

London, Printed, and are to be sold by Randal tailor near Stationers-Hall. 1691.