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ENGLAND'S WELCOME 
 
 TOHEEEOYAL 
 
 HIGHNESS 
 
 Tlie very Heart will melt itself a-^vay 
 Unless replenished with tlie genial ray 
 Of Love's enduring summer . . . 
 
 PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, 
 
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 OIsT THE 'Zth Idl^^PtOH, lOeS. 
 
 Witnti»ax: 
 PKINTED BY W. F. TAYLOR, 13, HIGH STBEET. 
 
 1863. 
 
NISI 
 
 1. jO^I^I^ England waits to g've you 
 
 A Welcome to our shore, 
 And with such Hope receive you 
 No Princess raised before. 
 
 2. One Thought has seized the people, — 
 
 One Impulse sAvays their mind : — 
 From balustrade and steeple, 
 It is eddying on the wind : — 
 
 3. From out triumphal Arches, 
 
 With Standards side by side : 
 
 In the swelling mass that marches 
 
 Like a mighty human tide : — 
 
 4. In the booming of the cannon. 
 
 In the peal of merry bells ; 
 From the mighty Thames to Shannon, 
 From Caithness to Cornish fells; — 
 
 5. In a thousand ways 'tis spoken, 
 
 By ten thousand thousands more, 
 Whose lusty cheers betoken, 
 You are Welcome to our shore. 
 
 G. For the Nations heart is swelling 
 
 With the warmth of holy Thought,— 
 How best to make our dwelling 
 
 Worth the Princess we have sought. 
 
 Jk^ thousand years have gone 
 Since your Danish sires came. 
 
 And by their valour won 
 The British Diadem. 
 
E K P L E T U M 
 
 8. Yet the Crown by Battle gained 
 By that armed and mailed host, 
 But a period was sustained, 
 And then in Battle lost ! 
 
 1). Once again the nations meet, 
 
 And their shout is heard afar ; 
 But their arms are at their feet, 
 And the shout is not of war. 
 
 10. There is music in the strain, — 
 There is mirth on every face ; 
 For a Maiden leads the train 
 As the symbol-soul of Peace ! 
 
 11. Come," Alexandra, come. 
 
 Our Avilling homage move, — 
 Make Britain your abiding Home 
 By a Victory of Love ! 
 
 12. X HOUGH you have left Relations 
 
 Kound Denmark's stately throne ; 
 Though Youth's associations 
 Seem broken up and gone : 
 
 13. The farewell jou have taken 
 
 Can scarce a sigh have wrung, — 
 No Friend need be forsaken, 
 No kindred tie unstrung. 
 
 14. No, no, we would not sever 
 
 Affection's filial chain. 
 But bid you bind it ever 
 
 Round the hearts you come to o-ain.- 
 
A M K E 
 
 15. 'As dutiful the Daughter, 
 
 As true in daily life, 
 So sure will she hereafter 
 Become as fond a wife.' 
 
 16. So runs our strong conviction : — 
 
 Nor shall we prize you less 
 That in your valediction 
 You wept such tenderness. 
 
 17. As robes the Eastern sky 
 
 In the roseate tints of morn, 
 A message will each hue supply 
 
 From the Laud where you were born. 
 
 1^- J^ OUR Beauty wakes our pleasure, 
 With the sweetness of your mind ; 
 Still, still our chiefest treasure 
 Is the Heart in you we find. 
 
 19. And as its pulses glow. 
 
 Our own will madly fly ; 
 Whilst every feeling leaps to show 
 It's kindling sympathy. 
 
 20. %j UR Nation longs to love you 
 
 With ardent heart and hand ; 
 
 And with one voice approve you. 
 
 First Daughter of the Land. 
 
 21. The Host that comes to greet you 
 
 Are types of those away : 
 The cheers that rise to greet you, 
 Swell every wind to-day. 
 
COR IPS U M 
 
 22. The IVIiglity and the LoavIj, 
 
 The Feeble and the Strong, 
 Catch up, with impulse ho^y 
 The nniverScHl sona- — 
 
 23. \yf OD bless ijou and anoint you 
 
 ^'■With grace for joys to come^ 
 '■'•And in our hearts appoint you 
 ^'•A splendid hoppy Ilome. 
 
 24. '■'•For England longs to love you, 
 
 With ardent hen it and hand ; 
 
 '•'■And with one voice approve you, 
 
 ^'■First Daughter of the Land. 
 
 25. ^ HERE are Yirghis come to trace 
 In early Spring- tide Flowers, 
 Your foot's first resling-place 
 Upon this Isle of ours. 
 
 2G. And o'er your gentle head 
 
 They'll wave the garlands gay, 
 And all their fragrance shed, 
 Like incense on your way. 
 
 27. 'Tis thus we Avould express 
 
 Our love of Virtue's ways, 
 
 And robe you in that loveliness 
 
 Ilcr presence aye portrays. 
 
 28. For in the action lies 
 
 This sentiment and more, — 
 
 That He who every gift supplies 
 
 May sweeten all your store. 
 

 TABESCET. 
 
 vii. 
 
 29. 
 
 %j/'UR Empire has its limits, 
 But not that countless host, 
 
 
 
 Whose ruling thought exhibits 
 But a care to serve you most. 
 
 
 30. 
 
 The Station we assign you 
 Is close beside our Queen, 
 
 Whose counsels will incline you 
 To he loved as she has been. 
 
 
 31. 
 
 listen to her story, 
 
 As Princess, Queen, and Wife ; 
 
 
 
 Then the halo of her glory 
 Will illuminate ^our life. 
 
 
 32. 
 
 Yea, the coronet you wear, 
 
 The more brilliant will become, 
 
 By the perfect grace you bear 
 In England's Royal Home. 
 
 
 33. 
 
 ^ UT love our Prince and cherish 
 His first rich love and true ; 
 
 So ne'er that love will perish 
 Which now we pour on you. 
 
 
 34. 
 
 \^0D bless your love and union, 
 It's stream each morn renew ; 
 
 And grant you that communion 
 
 Which brings high Heaven in view. 
 
 
 35. 
 
 For England longs to love you. 
 With faithful heart and hand 
 And with one voice approve you 
 
 
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 Eight Welcome to our land. 
 
 
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