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Last Line: In thankful joy and gratulation pure
Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Sweden


Call not the royal Swede unfortunate,
Who never did to Fortune bend the knee;
Who slighted fear; rejected stedfastly
Temptation; and whose kingly name and state
Have 'perished by his choice, and not his fate!'
Hence lives He, to his inner self endeared;
And hence, wherever virtue is revered,
He sits a more exalted Potentate,
Throned in the hearts of men. Should Heaven ordain
That this great Servant of a righteous cause
Must still have sad or vexing thoughts to endure,
Yet may a sympathizing spirit pause,
Admonished by these truths, and quench all pain
In thankful joy and gratulation pure.





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