Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-12-18
IFrom the New London Magazine.

. From the New London Magazine.
TSs so tAe Orange Tree at ysrsaia.s called &c Gre
n9aoos. .shieh 1, soost four hundred years old
When France with cSil wars was torn
And heads, 9s well rs crowns, were shern
From royal shoulders,
One Bourbon, in unalter'd plight
Hath still maintaind | II regal right
Aud held its court, goojy sight
To all beholders.
Thou, leafy monarch thou alone
tiath SAT uninjur'd on thy throne,
SEEING the war range;
And when the great Nassaus were sent
trownless away, IA sad event,)
Thou ddst uphold and represent
The House of Orange.
10 tell what changes thou hast seen
Zach Grand Monnrque, and King and Queen
M French extraction
Wight puzzle those who don't conceive
French history, so believe
Comparing thee with ours will give
More satisfaction.
Westminster whose onken roof
The papers say (but that's 10 PROOF
Is nearly rotten;
f,xtstcd but in stones and trees
. W hen thou vert waving in the breezc,
Ant blossoms (what a treat for bees :
by scores hadst gotten.
Chnucer, so old bard that time
Has antiquated every chime,
And from bis tomb ouiworn each rhyme
Within the Abbey;
Apd Cover, an older poet, whom
The Borough Church cnshrnes (his tomb,
Though once restored, has lost its bloom.
And got quite sbabby)
liv'din Thy ttmc-the first percharce
Was beating Monks when thou ia France
Dy Monks vert beaten,
Who shook beneath this very tree,
Their reverend bearis with ef't.ou glee,
As each do~nialling luxury
Was caught and eaten.
Perehanec, when Henry gain'd the fehs
OF Agincrurt, some Gauiish Knight
t'lis bleeding sliced in woeful plgsS
With smoking haurchesl,
aid down his helmet at Thy root,
And as hc pluck'd the grateful fIrIit.
suacrd his poor exhausted brute
10 crop thy branches.
TlIou vert Of pOrily size and look,
When first the 'rarks besiegcd and took
ConStaniinope
AUD eagles in Thy boughs might pcrflf
When leaving DGllen in The lurch,
Another Henry changed his church,,
md used the Pope i'll.
What numerous namesakes hast thou sccn'
icunsing beneath thy shady green,
with monks as lazy
Louis QuatortLc IN. prcssd that grouuH
With his six misIresscs around,
sn.nn'e ~ the old and sound
Legitimacy
,lsnd when despo,ie freaks and vices
Brought on M e,iiabe crisis
OF revolution,
Thou heard'st the rnob's iufuriatc shrieai
WiIo came their victim Queen tn seek,
On gtiiltiess heads the wrath TO wreak
OF retrihuiioN.
o: of what loiiics, vice and crime
Hast thou. in thy cvcntful time, -;
Been made Beholder.
" hat wars, what feudS-the thoughts anna,
Zach against cneh, and all with all,
iii races upou races fall
In Garth 90 moulder.
Whilst thou, serene, unultcr'i, calm.
ISuch thc constant gifts and BALM
neslowd by Nature y
Hast year br year renewd thy flowers.
And perlumh the surrounding bowers,
And pOur'd down grateful fruit by showe..
And profIerd shade in summer hours
To man and creature.
Thou green ami venerable tree
Whnte'er thy future doom may be
BY fortune giv'n,
Remember that n rhy mester brought
From foreign shores thine umbrage sought,
Nccalrd the blessings thou hadst wrought
Mad as he thank'd thee, rails his thought
To lleas'n. III.
here sa tradition Enough tauthcnticaicd thnt Cha
vas tined for beating Friar in Feet-street.