Today our Queen Elizabeth becomes the British throne's longest-reigning monarch, surpassing her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria's reign of sixty-three years and two hundred and sixteen days. With John Masefield's Laureate Coronation lines in my mind, I wonder whether we have deserved her, for all that this country might, as I still believe quietly, be in with a shout of being the 'World's wonder'.
May God save the Queen, and bring forth Masefield's hoped-for
'...season of the springing seed
'...season of the springing seed
Of all a People one in an endeavour
To make our Sovereign lady Queen indeed
Over a Kingdom worthy, the World's wonder.'
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