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Bruis'd, and afflicted, and so low
As ready to expire,

While I thy terrors undergo

Astonish'd with thine ire.

16 Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow, Thy threatnings cut me through:

17 All day they round about me go,

Like waves they me pursue.

18 Lover and friend thou hast remov'd,

And fever'd from me far:

They fly me now whom I have lov'd,
And as in darkness are.

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A Paraphrafe on PSAL. CXIV. This and the following Pfalm were done by the Author at fifteen years old.

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HEN the blest seed of Terah's faithful fon After long toil their liberty had won, And past from Pharian fields to Canaan land, Led by the strength of the Almighty's hand, Jehovah's wonders were in Israel 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. The high, huge-bellied mountains skip like rams Amongst their ews, the little hills like lambs.

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Why fled the ocean? And why skipt the mountains? Why turned Jordan tow'rd his crystal fountains? Shake Earth, and at the prefence be aghaft

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Of him that ever was, and ay shall last,

That glassy floods from rugged rocks can crush,

And make foft rills from fiery flint-stones gush.

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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 shake.
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 rise above the watry plain.
For his &c.

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Who by his all-commanding might

Did fill the new-made world with light.

For his &c.

And caus'd the golden-tressed sun,

All the day long his course to run.
For his &c.

The horned moon to shine by night,
Amongst her spangled sisters bright.
For his &c.

He with his thunder-clafping hand
Smote the first-born of Egypt land.
For his &c.

And in defpite of Pharao fell,
He brought from thence his Ifrael.
For his &c.

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