Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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I.— PSALM I.
Blest is the man who walketh not
In sinners' evil ways;
Nor with the wicked joins his lot,
Nor gives the scorner praise:
In sinners' evil ways;
Nor with the wicked joins his lot,
Nor gives the scorner praise:
But all his solace and delight
Is in his Father's word,—
His meditation day and night,
The doctrine of the Lord.
Is in his Father's word,—
His meditation day and night,
The doctrine of the Lord.
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As some green tree near flowing streams
That yields its timely fruit,
Unblighted still his foliage seems,—
He prospers, branch and root.
That yields its timely fruit,
Unblighted still his foliage seems,—
He prospers, branch and root.
Not so the ungodly; they are all
Like chaff before the blast;
In the dread judgment they shall fall,
And perish at the last:
Like chaff before the blast;
In the dread judgment they shall fall,
And perish at the last:
For the Lord loveth, and doth keep
The good man day by day;
But as for sinners, He shall sweep
And scatter them away!
The good man day by day;
But as for sinners, He shall sweep
And scatter them away!
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