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 XCIII.
The Lord, a mighty Monarch, reigns,In Robes of State himself he drest:
The Zone of Fortitude restrains
The Folds of his imperial Vest.
This pensile habitable World
He balanc'd in the liquid Space:
Which by no Force shall e'er be hurl'd
From its determin'd destin'd Place.
Thy Throne was founded e'er the Earth
Was made; or rolling Ages run:
Anteriour thou to Nature's Birth,
Primæval Essence, unbegun!
Hark, Lord! the swelling Torrent roars;
The Flood exhorts the boiling Main:
Old Ocean summons all the Stores
His ample Magazines contain.
What tho' the Surges foam and roll,
And with impetuous Tumult rave?
The Lord resides above the Pole,
More dreadful than the raging Wave.
On thy Decrees does Truth await:
And, Lord! in thy eternal Dome,
So to adorn thy regal State,
Fair Piety has fix'd her Home.
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