Hymn to the Sun, from The Indian Queen. Songs from the Plays. John Dryden. 1913. The Poems of John Dryden

John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913.

Songs from the Plays

Hymn to the Sun, from The Indian Queen


YOU to whom Victory we owe,
Whose glories rise
By sacrifice
And from our fates below,
Never did your Altars shine	5
Feasted with Blood so near divine.
Princes to whom we bow,
As they to you,
Thus you can ravish from a throne,
And by their loss of pow’r declare your own.	10