You can find here many occasions to blame the author on that base that Royal English of now-a-days is far of another mode. But insisting on my rights to be in grammar as uncommon as poetry can permit, I'd want to point out the way I follow on my own.
Immortal Milton, heroic Byron, celebrated Coleridge and brilliant Shakespeare - all that had ever made me filled by spirit with which this great culture and language had here their imprint of words, reason of expression, and all that would in modest writer's cuisine be.
I hope it would be found- as usually was - that all having enough of happiness to befall here is but slight, exquisite entertainment for those as leisure as gentle people that have enough time and education to read for no other purpose but their bon-sens.
P.S. My epigraph that I took for this book is the best explanation of the rhymes' nature. Heaven knows where is the origin of harmony.
P.P.S. Royal English in my opinion is English of The Bible, Divine Service and of Saint people of God. Because Lord Jesus Christ is King of kings, and Lord of lords (Timothy 6:15).
The Prologue to Reader.
I
So now I dedicate to You
My modest book, and hope this time
That royal tune of English rhyme
Will be in there though once- but true.
II
With language which I ought to hone
My simple-hearted lyre as may
Did glorify its night and day,
And that's to come, and that has gone.
III
No motto can explain my reason,
No sentence- attitude to world,
But speech so often golden-pearled,
But love that knows not air of treason.
0001 -- To St. George (acrostic).
To be the man- it means to be in war.
Oft now recalling of thy virtue's sword,
Since world has fallen from the ways of Word
Thou waited art as one immortal star!
Go higher on in light of Victory
Effacing vice. And still 'tis not in vain-
Or weary eyes, to Thou revolved to be,
Reject can this great joy for new disdain?
God- No! All life in me I ever had
Ere gets the dust- o lets the prayer get!
0002 -- The Hymn To Marvelous Icon "Royal" (Derzhavnaya).