On the Fair Weather just at Coronation.

SO clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms,
ShewsHeav'n delights to see what Man performs.
Well knew the Sun, if such a day were dim,
It would have been an injury to him:
For then a Cloud had from his eye conceal'd
The noblest sight that ever he beheld.
He therefore check'd th' invading Rains we feared,
And a more bright Parenthesis appeared.
So that we knew not which look'd most content,
The King, the People, or the Firmament.
But the Solemnity once fully past,
* * * * * * * * * *
And Heav'n and Earth each other to out-doe,
Vied both in Cannons and in Fire-works too.
So Israel past through the divided floud,
While in obedient heaps the Ocean stood:
But the same Sea (the Hebrews once on shore)
Return'd in torrents where it was before.