Classic Poem

Set and Sung.

Welcome, Great Cesar , welcome now you are,
As dearest Peace, after destructive Warre:
Welcome as slumbers; or as beds of ease
After our long, and peevish sicknesses.
O Pompe of Glory! Welcome now, and come
To re-possess once more your long'd-for home.
A thousand Altars smoake; a thousand thighes
Of Beeves here ready stand for Sacrifice.
Enter and prosper, while our eyes doe waite
For an Ascendent throughly Auspicate:
Under which signe we may the former stone
Lay of our safeties new foundation:
That done; O Cesar , live, and be to us,
Our Fate , our Fortune , and our Genius ;
To whose free knees we may our temples tye
As to a still protecting Deitie.
That sho'd you stirre, we and our Altars too
May ( Great Augustus ) goe along with You .
Chor. Long live the King; and to accomplish this,
We'l from our owne, adde far more years to his.