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The Psalmes of David Translated Into Divers and Sundry Kindes of Verse
The Psalmes of David Translated Into Divers and Sundry Kindes of Verse Author:Philip Sidney Subtitle: More Rare and Excellent for the Method and Varietie Than Ever Yet Hath Been Done in English General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Original Publisher: By C. Whittingham for R. Triphook Description: "The edition of the Early English Poets, of which this forms a portion, is limited to 250 copies". Notes... more »: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PSALM XIX. Cceli enarrant. The heav'nly frame setts foorth the fame Of him that only thunders; The firmament, so strangly bent, Showes his hand-working wonders. Day unto day, doth it display, Their course doth it acknowledg: And night to night succeeding right In darknes teach cleare knowledg. There is no speaeh, nor language, which Is soe of skill bereaved: But of the skies the teaching cries They have heard and conceaved. There be no eyne, but read the line From soe faire book proceeding; Their wordes be sett in letters greate For ev'ry bodies reading. Is not he blind that doth not find The tabernacle builded There by his grace, for sunnes faire face, In beames of beuty guilded.. Who foorth doth come, like a bridegrooine From out his vailing places: As gladd is hce, as giantes be To rnnne their mighty races. His race is ev'n, from endes of heav'n, About that vault he goeth: There be no realmes hid from his beames, His heate to all he throweth. O law of his, how perfect tis! The very soule amending; Gods wittnes sure for ay doth dure, To simplest, wisdome lending. Gods doomes be right, and cheere the sprite: AH his commandments being So purely wise they give the eies Both light, and force of seeing. Of him the feare, doth cleannes beare, And soe endures for ever: His judgments be self verit...« less