Snatch'd from the scenic monarch's glorious crown,
A few stray gems I bring. Before thy feet,
Exalted fair, in every charm complete,
Their home was ever in the princely breast;
That crowned vestal, western sun of fame,
She loved them; and in their unfading flame
The image of her brightness shines confess'd.
As when the flow'rets of the spring unfold
Their censers, with the pearls of morn replete,
Nature's sweet sacrifice, the lordly sun
Joys to illume them; on my offering bold,
Sun of the North, from thy resplendent seat,
Of all thy countless rays, oh, shed but one!
Peter Foersom (1717 – 1817) Denmark
Translated by William Sidney Walker
Source: Poems: from the Danish by Andreas Andersen Feldborg, Thomas Dobson, 1816
Dedicatory lines to the Princess Royal of Denmark; prefixed to a Danish translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Julius Cæsar.
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