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Rock Honeycomb; Broken Pieces of Sir Philip Sidney's Psalter. Laid up in Store for English Homes
Rock Honeycomb Broken Pieces of Sir Philip Sidney's Psalter Laid up in Store for English Homes Author:Philip Sidney General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Ellis and White Notes: 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... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PSALM I. BEATUS VIR. I. He blessed is, who neither loosely treads The straying steps, as wicked counsel leads; Nor for bad mates in way of sinners waiteth ; Nor yet himself with idle scorners seateth ; 5 But on God's law his whole delight doth bind, Which, night and day, he calls to marking mind. II. He shall be like a freshly planted tree, To which sweet springs of water neighbours be ; Whose branches fail not timely fruit to nourish, I o Nor withered leaf shall make it fail to flourish : So all the things whereto that man doth bend, Shall prosper still, with well succeeding end. III. Such blessing shall not wicked wretches see, But like vile chaff with wind, shall scatter'd be ; 15 For neither shall the men in sin delighted Consist, when they to highest doom are cited; Nor yet shall suffred be a place to take Where godly men do their assembly make. IV. For God doth know, and knowing doth approve, 20 The trade of them that just proceedings love : But they that sin in sinful breast do cherish, -- The way they go, shall be the way to perish. Sidney cannot completely versify this psalm, (on which see the notes in Preface,) because he was not old enough to know its full depth ; and feels it, himself, only as if it were an ordinary assertion of what everybody knows: whereas in reality it is a Psalm of Doom, as grand in blessing and malediction as the last song of Moses. 2. " The straying steps." At first the line seems weak, and as if the definite article were redundant. But the preceding analysis of the moral terms of the Psalter will,...« less