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And Flora and Cupid arose from the throne, 
Due homage to pay to the sovereign they own. 
The Sun at this moment attain’d its full height, 
And shot forth its rays more resplendent and bright; 
Then the Hose and the Shamrock and Thistle entwin’d, 
Came floating and streaming away in the wind, 
To wave on those banners and join in that crown, 
Which for ages has given Great Britain renown. 
To the Hose of old England obesiance was made, 
To the Thistle of Scotland all honor was paid; 
And the emerald Shamrock as green as its Isle , 
Was greeted and courted with many a smile. 
Then Majesty enter’d with every grace, 
And virtue that long have distinguished her race, 
Which the noble White Lily did aptly pourtray, 
With her unspotted leaves, just expanded to-day, 
Like the wings of an angel, spread over the earth, 
0 er the ground where she grew, and the land of her birth. 
In the suite of the Lily came all that is fair, 
Exotics in bloom and the plants of the air , 
