Happy Birthday!

Queen Elizabeth of England
(not of "Great Britain")

born 9/7/1533
(d1603)

          The Queen was in her chamber; her sins were on her head;
          She looked the spirits up and down and statelily she said:
          'Backwards and forwards and sideways though I've been,
          Yet I am Harry's daughter and I am England's Queen!'
          And she faced the looking-glass (and what-ever else there was),
          And she saw her day was over and she saw her beauty pass
          In the cruel looking-glass that can always hurt a lass
          More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was!
  
                  "The Looking Glass" - words by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) from Rewards
                  and Fairies in the story, "Gloriana."  Tune: Peter Bellamy

A sweet little song and I like to sing on ladies' birthdays. I guess it perks them up a bit.

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