6.30: More intense excitement still,
And shouts of 'Long live Guelpho!' from the crowd.
A mob has blocked the ground of Marlborough House,
And calling Alexandra, hail her Queen!
Rumours of abdication float about.
6.45. The Premier's just announced,
From the Home Office window in Whitehall,
The abdication of Her Majesty
In favour of her son Prince Guelpho, now,
By grace of God and people's will, our King.
The city's wild with joy. N.B. This news
Is quite authentic, and may be announced!"
This being so, your Majesty, to me
Belongs the happy duty first to call
For hearty cheers for our new Sovereign.
King Edward. Soldiers my heart's too full to tell my thoughts,
Since, thanks to my good mother's gracious act,
Succeed I to the throne, to-day made firm
And strong once more by your most loyal endeavours.
God helping me, I will so reign o'er England,
She never shall repent the choice she made.
Too long I've given my enemies the chance
To point the scornful finger; giv'n real friends
Much cause for sorrow. Now those days are past,
I now my loose behaviour throw right off,
And pay the debt I never promisèd:
And as 'twas unexpected, so 'twill prove,
My reformation, glittering o'er my faults,
Shall show more goodly, and attract more eye
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Full worthy of my now exalted post
'Tis not within man's means to wholly be;
But, soldiers, I will try to bear myself
Like a good Englishman; give me your aid,
And with my Queen beside me, I will seek
England's first place among the powers to keep.
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British Medical Journal, Jan. 24th, 1874.
To Mr. W. T. Cooper.Her Majesty's Italian Opera.
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