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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

By the Rev. William Crowe ... a corrected and much enlarged edition, with notes

Crowe, William (1745-1829)

INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.

ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.

VERSES

ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. W. HAYES, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

THE WORLD .

THE BRITISH THEATRE.

ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, ENTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.

THE SPLEEN.

LINES

TO A YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN,

TRANSLATION OF A GREEK INSCRIPTION UPON A FOUNTAIN .

PSALM LXXII.

FROM PURCHASE'S PILGRIMAGE,

FRAGMENT.

THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE.

ON TWO ENGLISH POETS,

VERSES

ON THE FUNERAL OF ------,

PARODY

EPIGRAM.

AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,

ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE.

INSCRIPTION

ON FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW.

ON F. W. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT ON WARSAW.

POLITICAL ADVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CONVENTION.

WRITTEN WHEN BUONAPARTE WAS ALTERING THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY.

SUCCESSION.

EPIGRAM.

ON THE INCREASE OF HUMAN LIFE.

ODE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. 1823.

VERSES

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121

PSALM LXXII.

ABRIDGED, AND ADAPTED TO A PARTICULAR TUNE.

Lord, to the King thy judgments give,
Give to his Son thy righteousness:
So shall thy people safely live,
So he thy chosen flock shall bless.

121

Great his dominion, large his sway
O'er earth and ocean shall extend:
Him shall remotest isles obey,
Him the wide sea from end to end.

War and the battle then shall cease,
Then righteous men in favour stand;
Peace shall return, a lasting peace;
Plenty again shall store the land.

While He, with choicest blessings crown'd,
Long on his throne shall sit sublime;
Honour'd by all the nations round,
Honour'd by Kings of every clime.

122

Blest be our God for these fair days,
These happy days that rise again!
O may his glorious name and praise
Fill all the earth! Amen, amen.

By adapted, is here meant, partly, that the accented syllables in the verse coincide with the accented notes of the tune.