On the toast of the monarch <br />Was the test of the day <br />On the tradition of millennia <br />Was the shift to the people <br />Of the rise of the parliament <br />Lords have given them a way <br />Of the sense of justice <br />Commons ultimate hold strings <br />Of the mother of institutions <br />Relics old sigh cold <br />Of the warmth of the royalty <br />The Queen happily celebrated <br />Her eighty fourth birth day <br /> <br />Islamabad <br />23/4/2010 <br /> <br />On the eighty fourth birthday of Queen Elizabeth II <br />On 22/4/2010<br /><br />Sadiqullah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/queen-elizabeth-ii-2/