Clang out, wild bells, your glad acclaim: <br />Roar, deep-mouthed cannon, honour to her name! <br />To her whom England loves to hail <br />Oldest and noblest of our noble kings, <br />Roar loyalty and love till Heav'n's vault rings. <br />Flare, ye red beacons, till the stars grow pale; <br />Carry o'er England's plains to ocean's wave <br />The exultation of a nation's voice; <br />Of thousands that as one rejoice <br />To honour her whom God has pleased to save. <br /> <br />Victoria, sixty years a queen! <br />But eighteen summers hadst thou seen, <br />When, 'midst thy mourning for a kinsman dead, <br />The nation placed upon thy sorrowing head <br />The burden of a crown, <br />And in thy young hands laid <br />The priceless jewel of the land's renown. <br />Since then Time's feet have swiftly flown; <br />The head that bears the diadem with age is silvery grown, <br />The wondrous tale of sixty years hath blest thine honoured throne! <br />And now once more the wild glad bells peal out, <br />Once more is heard the universal shout, <br />Once more thy broad realms ring with joy for thee, <br />Once more thy world-wide Empire joins to hail thy Diamond Jubilee! <br />Now let the brazen trumpet blare, <br />And let our cheering rend the air, <br />And let the long loud roar of shouting rise <br />With glory, glory, glory, to the skies; <br />For sixty years of power without a stain, <br />Sixty years of one long glorious reign, <br />Sixty years of peace with honour, sixty years of glorious gain!<br /><br />Cicely Fox Smith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/diamond-jubilee/
