So breaks the day when the returning Sun 
Hath newly through his Winter Tropick run, 
As You (Great Sir!) in this regress come forth 
From the remoter Climate of the North. 
To tell You now what cares, what fears we past, 
What Clouds of sorrow did the land ore-cast, 
Were lost, but unto such as have been there 
Where the absented Sun benights the year: 
Or have those Countreys traveld which nere feel 
The warmth and vertue of his flaming wheel. 
How happy yet were we! that when you went, 
You left within your Kingdomes firmament 
A Partner-Light, whose lustre may despise 
The nightly glimm'ring Tapers of the skies, 
Your peerless Queen; and at each hand a Starre 
Whose hopeful beams from You enkindled are. 
Though (to say truth) the light which they could bring 
Serv'd but to lengthen out our evening. 
Heavens greater lamps illumine it; each spark 
Adds onely this, to make the sky less dark. 
Nay She who is the glory of her sex 
Did sadly droop for lack of Your reflex: 
Oft did She her fair brow in loneness shrowd, 
And dimly shone, like Venus in a cloud. 
Now are those gloomy mists dry'd up by You, 
As the Worlds eye scatters the Ev'ning dew: 
And You bring home that blessing to the land 
Which absence made us rightly understand. 
Here may You henceforth stay! there need no charms 
To hold You, but the circle of her arms, 
Whose fruitful love yields You a rich increase, 
Seales of Your joy, and of the kingdomes peace. 
O may those precious pledges fixe You here, 
And You grow old within that chrystall Sphere! 
Pardon this bold detention. Else our love 
Will meerly an officious trouble prove. 
Each busie minute tells us as it flies, 
That there are better objects for your eyes. 
To them let us leave you, whil'st we go pray, 
Raising this triumph to a Holy-day. 
And may that soul the Churches blessing want; 
May his content be short, his comforts scant, 
Whose Bosom-Altar does no incense burn, 
In thankful sacrifice for your return.