English poem
Roll on, ye prosperous years! ye prosperous…
by Gideon Granger (1734–1800)
Roll on, ye prosperous years! ye prosperous days! And as ye move, our happiness increase: Quicken our slowness and our dull delays, Nor let us loiter in the road to peace.
BEYOND the bounds of this terrestrial sphere, Is plac'd a world on tother side the skies: A life of virtue will conduct us there; There our best hope, and our best interest lies.