History in Rhyme.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2531, 15 February 1877, Page 3

History in Rhyme.

The invasion of Britain by Caasar, the bold, Was fifty-five years ante-Christ, we are told; .The date of the Saxon invasion is given— The figures are Anno D. forty-seven. Another grand fact, and its date I affix — The" battle of Hastings in ten sixty-six ; Then Harold was killed, and the Norman is ting, And William the Conqueror doth change everything ! • King John and the Barons at last are agreed, For Council to sit in the Vale. Bunnymede; . And there Magna-CJiarta, in twelve and fifteen, Was signed on the fifteenth of June on the. green. Then Henry the Seventh, the King, is alive, And comes to his throne in fourteen . eighty-five; The. long "War of Roses," in red and white, cease— Tha. nobles depressed—the people, hate. peace! .■•••_... Elizabeth, Queen, in fifteen fifty-eight . Ascends to her throne and her regal - estate; . . Then Charles, who was First, must, his , sceptre resign, ■ •. , With his head taken off in fortynine, his sorrow with life's latest ': 'breath, " . Hia conscience condemning for Stafford's sad.death. The Commonwealth Parliament,' sixteen '''' fifty-three, 'By Cromwell dissolved, then ceases to be ; And he, the sole head and " protector " of State,- „. . .. . _ Dies, worn out with trouble, in sixteen ::, : fifty-e.ight; ' .>.■.... In sixteen and sixty the kingdoms re- .;-:■;• stored— ■ / . Republican faction forgotten, ignored; And now Charles the Second beginneth " his reign, N And the regicides, tea, by-his orders are ; . slain! •' •"' And then revolution and change to-the " ..State . ; . Come on with the year sixteen eightyeight. King James, who was Second, abandons his throne;. . .-.-■' Prince William, of Orange, reigns monarch alone; , . Then William and- Mary their destinies '■ twine, ' . r - Uhiting' their glories, sixteen eighty- ' nine; ■ Then Annie succeeds to the honours of Queen; But the years of her glory are only thir- • teen;' " '■. *';..- - ;"' ''• ■' ,• " : ; ; And then come the Georges, First, Seconds ■ and Third, •• _ . And their wars with the nations, of which . yon have heard. • .-:■ The French do* their 'Canada-provinces resign, Defeated in seventeen fifty and nine. The Monarch, King George, is in a "bad fix," « In seventeen hundred and seventy six ! American subjects declare they are free •From 'British oppression and tax upon tea; • : The seven years' struggle is ended and- • done, In seventeen huridred and eighty and one. Wapoleon, Emperor, in eighteen and four, Has made many' conquests"—is still seeking more; . . ' But Bonaparte loses in eighteen fifteen, And Waterloo withers his laurels so green.. In eighteen and thirty the "BUI of Be- j form "-■-." : Grows out of debate and a Parliament storm. .' ' Victoria governs, in thirty and seven, As England's fair Queen, with the blessing.. of heaven. And so we might add to this curious f rhyme, Even " line upon ; line," if we only had ' time. , —S. C. Advocate." • ■ „