Poems on Several Occasions With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition |
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PSALM XXIX.
Ye Kings and Heroes! whose imperial SwayThe Subject Nations of the World obey:
Select the Leaders of the Flock with Care,
Whose budding Horns imagin'd Fights prepare;
To God's Abode the destin'd Victims bring,
And own the Lord, of Majesty the Spring.
With Rev'rence pure his sacred Name adore;
The Author of your delegated Pow'r:
For Strength deriv'd from him your Homage own;
And prostrate fall before his awful Throne.
His Sov'reign Voice restrains the swelling Floods;
He rolls his Thunder thro' the sable Clouds:
His Pow'r to Bounds confines the raging Sea;
And Nature's Laws his dreaded Voice obey.
His awful Voice commands; and all around
The stately Cedars tremble at the Sound:
From snow-crown'd Libanus the Cedars torn,
Their rifted Bole and shatter'd Branches mourn.
Not Woods alone, but solid Mountains shake;
Like Calves which Herdsmen from their Mothers take:
Tall Libanus inclines, and Hermon moves,
As the young Unicorn his Fury proves.
Th' Almighty speaks, the parted Clouds give way,
And thro' the Breach the ruddy Lightnings play:
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Of Cadesh, tremble at the Voice of God.
The Forest shakes, and forc'd by sudden Throes
The frighted Hinds their helpless Fawns depose.
The Coverts shine, detected by the Blaze,
And God's high Temple ecchoes with his Praise.
The Lord, for ever King, tho' Tempests rave,
Enthron'd resides above the roaring Wave.
Be thou in War thy People's dread Defence;
In Peace the Blessings of calm Peace dispense.
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