Bruis'd, and afflicted, and so low 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, 61 65 70 A Paraphrafe on PSAL. CXIV. This and the following Pfalm were done by the Author at fifteen years old. W 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. 5 10 Why 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 15 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. O let us his praises tell, Who doth the wrathful tyrants quell. Who with his miracles doth make Who by his wifdom did create Who did the folid earth ordain To rise above the watry plain. U 2 5 10 15 20 Who 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. The horned moon to shine by night, He with his thunder-clafping hand And in defpite of Pharao fell, 25 30 35 40 |