Bowles, William Lisle, "On His Majety's Return to Windsor Castle." in The Bijou; (London: William Pickering , 1828)
   
      
         
            
               The Bijou; 
               or Annual of Literature and the Arts
            
            compiled by William Fraser
            
            
               
                  William Pickering
               
               London
            
            1828
            
               
                  pp. 91-92
               
            
         
      
      
         
             91 
            
               On His Majety's Return to Windsor Castle
            
            
               By the Rev. W. Lisle
                  Bowles
            
            
               NOT that thy name, illustrious dome, recalls
               The pomp of chivalry in banner'd halls,
               The blaze of beauty, and the gorgeous sights
               Of heralds, trophies, steeds, and crested knights;
               Not that young Surrey there beguil'd the hour
               With "eyes upturn'd unto the maiden's tower;"
               Oh! not for these, the muse officious brings
               Her gratulations to the best of Kings;
               But that from cities and from crowds withdrawn,
               Calm peace may meet him on the twilight lawn — 
               That here, among these grey primeval trees,
               He may inhale health's animating breeze — 
               That these old oaks, which far their shadow cast,
               May sooth him, while they whisper of the past;
               And when from that proud Terrace he surveys
               Slow Thames devolving his majestic maze,
               (Now lost on the horizon's verge, now seen
               Winding through lawns, and woods, and pastures green)
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               May he reflect upon the waves that roll,
               Bearing a nation's wealth from pole to pole,
               And own (ambition's proudest boast above)
               A King's best glory is his country's Love.