The Royal Marriage.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5207, 24 September 1885, Page 2

The Royal Marriage.

The Poet Laureate has written the following lines in honour of the marriage of HE.U. Princess Beatrice:—

Two Suns of Love make day of human life, Which else with all its pains and griefs and

deaths Were utter darkness - one, the Sun of dawn That brightens thro' the Mother's tender

eyes, And warms the child's awakening world—

and one , The later-rising. Sun of japo—llte^e- -■?*» , Which from her houeehold orbit draws the

child . ...V* To move in other spheres)" The Mother "••■-.—-weeper -.»t.. - <■---.-- -" wr^i'wtw* At that white funeral of the (single life, Her maiden daughter's marriage; and ber tears Are half of pleasure, half of pain—the child lshappy-ev«n in learing-fcrttrat ThOTj* True daughter, whose all-faithful, filial )eyes Hare seen the loneliness of earthly thrones, Wilt neither quit"the widowM Crown, nor let This later light of Love have riseu in vain, But moving thro' the Mother's .'home, between ' The two that love thee, lead a summer 'life, Sway'd by each Love, and swaying to;each Love ' ; Like some conjectured planet in mid-heaven Between two Suns, and drawing down'from both _ .-< \ ; The light and genial warmth-,pf double iday.