A song for New-Years-Day

A song for New-Years-Day

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A SONG FOR New Years Day. Licens'd according to Order.

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A SONG FOR New Years Day.
Licens'd according to Order.

I.

BE kind, Great God of Time, be kind, and from

The wealthy Treasury of Years to come,

Cull out the whitest Minutes, those that swell

With future Triumphs and Success,

With gay Delight and Happiness,

That laugh, and smile, and promise well.

Appear, ye happy Minutes, all appear,

That never disappoint the Hopes ye raise;

And in your several Ranks of Hours and Days,

Make up the gaudy Train of the approaching Year.

II.

See how the crowding Minutes press,

And with a pleasing Tumult strive

That happy Station to possess,

By which they may the rest survive.

For well they know, the coming Year

Is big with Scenes of lasting Glory,

With mighty Themes of future Story,

And all the Moments that appear,

Which in that round shall jointly be

Consign'd to deathless Fame and Immortality.

III.

Bless me, What wondrous Object I descry!

How bright a Prospect entertains my Eye!

The teeming Particles of Time,

At once their numerous Births disclose,

And to my willing View expose

Actions so Noble and Sublime:

As do resistless Charms impart,

And through my Sight, like Beauty, strike my Heart.

Each bears the Stamp of Nassaw's Glorious Name:

Nassaw the Great, the Just as well as Brave,

Whose Guide is Honour, and Success his Slave;

Danger his Pastime, and his Herald Fame;

In whose bless'd Fate the ravish'd World may see,

Vertue and Fortune can sometimes agree:

Cautious in Council, Vigorous in Fight;

Secret as Darkness, Active as the Light.

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IV.

What's this, ye Gods, I feel within?

What sacred Fury has my Soul possess'd?

'Tis sure the Delphick God that entred in,

And losely Revels in my Breast.

Hence ye Prophane! No vulgar Ear,

The Musick Truths I tell must hear.

Hark! Hark! I hear the British Lyons roar,

And with their Voices shake the Gallick Shoar.

See how the Seyne and Loyre combine,

To make their Streams out-vie the Famous Boyne:

Cressy, Poictiers and Agen-Court no more

Shall be esteem'd in future Story,

The utmost Marks of Albion's Glory.

Nassaw does fresh Recruits of Honour bring,

And France must bend once more beneath an English King.

V.

But when, ye Powers! when must his Labours cease?

Must he still Toil to set the World at ease?

When must he reap Love's quiet Joys,

The peaceful fruit of Prosperous Arms?

When indisturb'd by Martial Noise,

And frequent calls of shrill alarms,

O'er-pay himself for all his Pains, with bright Maria's Charms?

Maria form'd by bounteous Heaven,

To cancel all the mighty Debts we owe;

The swelling Summs which hourly grow

And make the Balance ev'n.

Whilst he abroad does like the Sun display

His active Beams, and give to others day,

She like the modest Regent of the Night

Supplies his room, but not with borrow'd Light,

And fills the Throne with such successful Care,

That scarce we miss the Mighty Nassaw there.

Gladly the World her influence obeys,

And sleeps secure beneath her watchful Rays.

The grand Chorus.

Ye Great Defenders of the Faith go on,

As you that Title justly make your own;

Whose sad Abuse the differing World before

Did either laugh at or deplore:

So Vindicate your other Titles too,

By Merit more than Quality your due;

Successfully your Glorious Arms advance,

And be in Deed, as well as Name, the King and Queen of France.

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LONDON, Printed for R. Baldwin, 1692.

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Title statement

A song for New-Years-Day

Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.

Edition statement

1692

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Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) :

Date

2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

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A29165

ID [STC]

Wing B4183

ID [STC]

ESTC R37130

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

16219580

ID [OCLC]

ocm 16219580

ID [VID]

105123

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— A song for New-Years-Day, Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726..

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1 sheet (2 p.)

Printed for R. Baldwin,. London :: 1692.. (Caption title.) (Attributed to Brady by Wing.) (Imprint from colophon.) ("Licens'd according to order.") (Reproduction of original in the British Library.)

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