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 LXXII. |
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PSALM LXXII.
O God! do thou inspire the Monarch's Thought,With Lessons of unerring Justice fraught;
Derive the lineal Blessing to his Son,
And teach thy right Decrees to Solomon:
He to thy Tribes shall give impartial Laws,
And thus instructed guard the poor Man's Cause.
Peace to the People shall the Mountains bring:
From humble Hills Integrity shall spring.
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The Destitute and Orphan shall defend:
And in his Wrath the proud Oppressor rend.
Thee shall they rev'rence, while the golden Sun
His constant Race shall thro' the Zodiac run,
Thee, while the various Moon with borrow'd Light
Shall in a silver Orb her Horns unite,
Thee, while the restless Course of Time supplies
One Race expiring with another's Rise.
He from above shall come, as falling Dews
Upon the curling Fleece their Drops diffuse:
Or as the Show'rs of seasonable Rain
With vegetative Humor steep the Plain
The Just shall prosper in his happy Days:
And Peace abundant till the Moon decays.
From Sea to Sea shall spread his ample Reign:
Here bounds Euphrates, there the Western Main.
The Tribes who wander in the lonely Waste,
Shall bow to him: his Foes before him cast
Shall lick the Dust. To him the Kings who reign
In foreign Isles and o'er the distant Main,
And Kings who Arab and Sabæa sway
Shall wealthy Tribute and Oblation pay.
The Monarchs all shall fall before him prone;
And Men their universal Sov'reign own.
He saves the Wretches who his Aid implore;
And guards the Unassisted and the Poor:
In him they shall a gen'rous Patron find,
To rescue them, and chear their anxious Mind;
From Fraud and Rapine he their Souls redeems,
And precious in his Sight their Blood esteems.
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Receive the Treasures of her shining Ore:
To him shall all their Supplications pay,
And sing his Praise with each returning Day.
From scatter'd Grain, which scarce the Grasp cou'd fill,
Shall golden Harvests crown the summit Hill,
Trembling with burthen'd Ears; so shake the Woods
When Lebanon with all his Forests nods:
And in the peaceful City shall be seen
Her People, chearful as the vernal Green.
His Name shall ever last, his deathless Name,
While Day's bright Lamp renews his orient Flame:
And all Posterity to him shall give
The Praise of Blessings they from him receive.
Let Israel's God be bless'd, by whom alone
Such signal Acts and Miracles are done:
Bless'd be the Name, and Majesty Divine,
And o'er the spacious World his Glory shine.
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