A poem for departing the house of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II
By Michael Dom
Dieu et mon droit, Elizabeth Regina
Elizabeth the Great, dieu et mon droit
Elizabeth Regina, peace not might
Your Majesty, you were our one true Queen
A queen that it was our honor to have seen
You kept your faith and so your people too
Could learn to endure and try to be true
A life of service was what you declaimed
But will we your people dare to reclaim
Dignity, humility and duty
As you so valiantly had maintained
Those simple virtues which we shun today
For seventy years you had kept your word
And bequeathed us with a greater empire,
Our Commonwealth of Nations, shall aspire
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