The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne/37
A MORNING HYMN.
TO THE DUCHESS OF HAMILTON.
Awake, bright Hamilton! ariſe,
Goddeſs of Love and of the Day;
Awake, diſcloſe thy radiant eyes,
And ſhew the ſun a brighter ray:
Phœbus in vain calls forth the blushing morn;5
He but creates the day which you adorn.
The lark, that wont with warbling throat
Early to ſalute the ſkies,
Or ſleeps, or elſe ſuſpends his note,
Diſclaiming day till you ariſe.10
Goddeſs! awake, thy beams diſplay,
Reſtore the univerſe to light:
When Hamilton appears then dawns the day,
And when ſhe diſappears begins the night.
Lovers, who watchful vigils keep,
(For lovers never, never ſleep!)
Wait for the riſing of the fair,
To offer ſongs and hymns of pray’r,
Like Perſians to the ſun:
Ev’n life, and death, and fate, are there;20
For in the rolls of ancient Deſtiny,
Th’ inevitable book, ’t was noted down
The dying ſhould revive, the living die,
As Hamilton ſhall ſmile, as Hamilton ſhall frown.
CHORUS.
“Awake, bright Hamilton! ariſe,25
Goddeſs of Love and of the Day;
Awake, diſcloſe thy radiant eyes,
And ſhew the ſun a brighter ray:
Phœbus in vain calls forth the bluſhing morn;
He but creates the day which you adorn.”30