My hands to thee I spread.

To Wilt thou do wonders on the dead?

Shall the deceas'd arife,

And praise thee from their loathfom bed,

With pale and hollow eyes?

Shall they thy loving kindness tell,
On whom the grave bath hold;
Or they who in perdition dwell,
Thy faithfulness unföld?

12 In darkness can thy mighty band
Or wondrous acts be known,': [
Thy justice in the gloomy landro,

14 Why wilt thou, Lord, my soul forfake, And hide thy face from me,

15 That am already bruis'd, and ‡ shake

With terror sent from thee? Heb. Prae concussione. Bruis'd, and afflicted, and so low

As ready to expire,

While I thy térrors undergo

Aftonish'd with thine ire.

16 Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow,

Thy threatrings cut me through: 17 All day they round about me go, Like waves they me pursue.

18 Lover and friend thou haft remov'd,

And fever'd from me far.

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They fly me now whom I have lov'd,

And as in darkness are.

This and the following Pfalm were done by the Author at fifteen Years old.

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THEN the bleft feed of Terah's faithful fon, After long toil their liberty had won, And past from Pharian fields to Canaan land, Led by the ftrength of the Almightie's hand, Jehovah's wonders were in Ifrael shown, His praise and glory was in Israel known. That faw the troubled sea, and shivering fled, And fought to hide his froth-becurled head Low in the earth, Jordan's clear streams recoil, As a faint host that hath receiv'd the foil. Edua The high, huge-bellied mountains skip like rams Amongst their ews, the little hills like lambs.. Why fled the ocean? and why skipt the mountains? Why turned Jordan toward his crystal fountains? Shake earth, and at the presence be agaft

Of him that ever was, and ay shall last,

That glaffy flouds from rugged rocks can crush,
And make foft rills from fiery flint-stones gusk.

PSALM 136

LET us with a gladfom mind

Praise the Lord, for he is kind:

For his mercies ay endure,

Ever faithful, ever fure.

Let us blaze his name abroad,
For of gods he is the God;
For his, &c.

O let us his praises tell,

Who doth the wrathful tyrants quell,

For his, &c.

Who with his miracles doth make
Amazed heav'n and earth to fhake."
For his, &c.

Who by his wifdom did create
The painted heav'ns so full of state.
For his, &c.

Who did the folid earth ordain

To rife above the watry plain.

For his, &c.

Who by his all-commanding might,

Did fill the new-made world with light.

For his, &c.

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The horned moon to shine by night,sin
Amongst her fpangled fifters.bright...
For his, &c.

He with his thunder-clasping hand,
Smote the first-born of Aegypt land..
For his, &c.

And in defpight of Pharaoh fell,
He brought from thence his Ifrael.
For his, &c.

The ruddy waves he cleft in twain
Of the Erythraean main.

For his, &c.

The floods stood still like walls of glass,
While the Hebrew bands did pass.

For his, &c.

But full foon they did devour

The tawny king with all his power.

For his, &c.

His chofen people he did bless

In the wasteful wilderness.

For his, &c.

In bloody battle he brought down
Kings of prowefs and renown.

For his, &c.

He foil'd bold Seon and his hoft,
That rul'd the Amorrean coast.

For his, &c.

And-large-limb'd Og he did fubdue,
With all his over-hardy crew.
For his, &c.

And to his fervant Ifrael

He gave their land therein to dwell,

For his, &c.

He hath with a piteous eye | Beheld us in our misery. For his, &c.

And freed us from the slavery

Of the invading enemy.

For his, &c.

All living creatures he doth feed,
And with full hand fupplies their need
For his, &c.

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