"When the King Enjoys His Own Again" - English Civil War Song

Royalist song written in 1643 by Martin Parker. It was popular with Cavaliers during the English Civil War (1642 - 1651) and was later adopted by the Jacobites.
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LYRICS:
What Booker can prognosticate
Or speak of the kingdom's present state?
I think myself to be as wise
As he that looks most in the skies;
My skill goes beyond the depths of the pond,
Or rivers in the greatest rain,
By which I can tell that all things will be well
When the King comes home in peace again.
There's no astrologer, says I
Can search more deep in this than I
To give you a reason from the stars
What causes peace or civil wars;
The Man in the Moon may wear out his shoon
In running after Charles his wain:
But all to no end, for the times they will mend
When the King comes home in peace again.
Though for a time you may see Whitehall
With cobwebs hanging over all
Instead of silk and silver brave,
Which formerly it used to have,
And in every room, the sweet perfume,
Delightful for that princely train,
To which you shall see, when the time it shall be,
When the King comes home in peace again.
Till then upon Ararat's hill
My hope shall cast her anchor still,
Until I see some peaceful dove
Bring home the branch which I do love;
Still will I wait till the waters abate
Which must disturb my troubled brain,
For I'll never rejoice till I hear that voice
That the King comes home in peace again.
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