StoryTitle("caps", "On the Queen's Return From the Low Countries ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hallow the threshold, crown the posts anew! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The day shall have its due. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twist all our victories into one bright wreath, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On which let honour breathe; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then throw it round the temples of our Queen! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis she that must preserve those glories green. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When greater tempests than on sea before ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Received her on the shore; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she was shot at \"for the King's own good\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By legions hired to blood; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How bravely did she do, how bravely bear! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And show'd, though they durst rage, she durst not fear. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Courage was cast about her like a dress ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of solemn comeliness: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A gather'd mind and an untroubled face ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did give her dangers grace: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus, arm'd with innocence, secure they move ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose highest \"treason\" is but highest love.", "") ?>
Poet("William Cartwright", "1611–1643") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>