REDIVIVO PHŒNICI
LVCIFERO NEBVLAS FVGANTI
SOLI TENEBRAS PENITVS ABOLENTI
CAROLO II D. G. MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ FRANCIÆ ET HIBERNIÆ REGI
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| Tartareæ fugiunt volucres fugit atra caligo
Et metus atque horror sole oriente fugit:
Sic et CAROLIDÆ radijs depulsa recedat,
Inque suum fugiat gens inimica stigem[.]
Te nascente comes Phœbo stella aurea fulsit
Et luce insolita splenduit aucta dies:
Tu geminam flammæ vim prestes CAROLE sævos
Vre hostes, populum lumine restituas.
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To the Phoenix, restored to life,
To the Morning Star [Lucifer], putting the mists to flight,
To the Sun, utterly abolishing the darkness,
To CHARLES II D. G. King of Great Britain and Ireland--
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| Hell's wingèd brood, murk-steep'd, doth flee the Stars,
And grisly Horror shuns the Orb of Day:
So to its Stygian bourne the Tribe that wars
Is beaten back by Charles's Scion's ray.
A golden Light chanced at thy birth t'illume
Apollo's path, and thus exalt the Sky:
So may'st thou, Charles, with two-fold flame consume
Thy foes--and then thy People vivify!
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Wenceslas Hollar, Parthey-Pennington 1444 (kindred entry no. 1445 signed W. Hollar 1650), after A. van Diepenbecke, from the
frontispiece of A. M. Broadley's The Royal Miracle (London, 1912), anon. Latin lines here trans. G. L. de St. M. Watson.
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