8 From pleafant trees, which hade the brink,
The lark and linnet light to drink;
Their fongs the lark and linnet raise,
And chide our filence in his praise.

9 God, from his cloudy ciftern, pours
On the parch'd earth enriching fhow's;
The grove, the garden. and the field,
A thousand joyful bleflings yield.
Jo He makes the graffy food arife,
And gives the cattle large fupplies:
With herbs for man, of var'ous pow'r,
To nourish nature, or to cure.

II What noble fruit the vines produce!
The olive yields a fhining juice;
Our hearts are cheer'd, with gen'rous wine,
Withinward joy our faces fhine,

12 O blefs his name ye nations fed
With nature's chief fupporter bread;
While bread your vital strength imparts,
Serve him withwigor in your hearts.

PAUSE II.

3 Behold the ftately cedar ftande,
Rais'd in the foreft by his hands;
Birds to the boughs for helter fly,
And build their nefts fecure on high.
14 To craggy hills afcends the goat;
And at the airy mountain's foot,
The feebler creatures make their cell:
He gives them wisdom where to dwell.
15 Hefets the Sun his circling race,
Appoints the Moon to change her face
And when thick darkness veils the day,
Calls out wild beats to hunt their prey.

Fierce lions lead their young abroad,
And, roaring, afk their meat from God;

But, when the morning-bcams arise,
The favage beast to covert flies.

37 Then man to daily labor goes:
The night was made for his rej ofe;
Sleep is thy gift, that tweet relief
From tirefome toil and wasting grief..

18 How ftrange thy works! how great thy skill ! And ev'ry land thy riches fill:

Thy wildom round the world we foe;
This fpacious earth is full of thee.

19 Nor lefs thy glories in the deep,
Where filh, in millions, fwim and creep,
With wond'rous, motions, fwift or flow,
Still wand'ring in the paths below.
20 There fhips divide their wat❜ry way,
And flocks of fcaly monfiers play;
There dwells the huge Levithan,
And foams and fports in fpite of man.

PAUSE. III.

21 Vaft are thy works, Almighty Lord:
All nature reits upon thy word,
And the whole race of creatures ftand
Waiting their portion from thy Hand
22 While each receives his diff'rent food,
Their cheerful looks pronounce it good:
Eagles and bears, and whales and worms,
Rejoice and praife, in diff'rent forms

23 But when thy face is hid, they mourn;
And dying, to their duft return:
Both man and beaft their fouls refign;
Life, breath and fpirit, ali are thine.

24 Yet thou canft breathe on earth again,
And fill the world with beafts and men,
A word of thy ercating breath
Repairs the waftes of Time and Death,

as His works, the wonders of his might,
Are honor'd with his own delight:
How awful are his glor'ous ways!
The Lord is dreadful in his praife.

26 The earth ftands trembling at thy ftroke,
And, at thy touch, the mountains fioke
Yet humble fouls may fee thy face,
And tell their wants to Sov reign Grace.
27 In Thee my hopes and wishes meet,
And make my meditations fweet:
Thy praifes fhall my breath employ,
Till it expires in endiefs joy.

28 While haughty finners die accurft,
Their glory bury'd with their duft,
1 to my God, my heav'nly King,
Immortal hallelujahs fing.

PSALM CV. Abridged.

God's Conduct to lfrael and the Plagues of Egypt.

IVE thanks to God, invoke his name,

GIVE thanks Good his grace:

Sound through the earth his deeds of fame,
That all may feek his face.

2 His cov'nant which he kept in mind
For num'rous ages paft,

To num'rous ages yet behind,
In equal force fhall last.

3 He fware to Abr'am and his feed,
And made the bleffing fure:
Gentiles the ancient promife read,
And find his truth endure.

4" Thy feed fhall make all nations bleft,
(Said the Almighty Voice)

"And Canaan's land fhall be their reft,
"The type of heav'nly joys."

Is How large the grant ! how rich the grace!
To give them Canaan's land,

When they were ftrangers in the place.
A little feeble band!

6 Like pilgrims, through the countries round Securely they remov'd,

And haughty kings who on them frown'd
Severely he reprov'd.

2 "Touch Mine Anointed, and My Arm
Shall foon revenge the wrong;
"The man who does my prophets harm,
"Shail know their God is frong.

B Then let the world for bear its rage,
Nor put the Church in fear:
Ifr'elmut live through cry age.
And be th' Almighty's care.
PAUSEL.

9 When Pharaoh dar'd to wx the faints,
And thus provok'd their God:
Moles was fent at their complaints,
Arm'd with his dreadful rod.

10 He call'd for darkness : darkness came,
Like an o'er whelming flood;
He turn'd each lake, and ev'ry Stream,
To lakes and itreams of blood.

He gave the fign, and noisome flies Through the whole country spread; And frogs, in croaking armies rife About the monarch's bed.

12 Through fields and towns, and palaces, The ten-fold vengeance flew :

Locults, in warms, devour'd their trees, And hail their cattle flew :

13 Then by an angel's midnight stroke
The Row'r of Egypt dy'd :

The ftrength of ev'ry houfe was broke,
Their glory and their pride.,

14 Now let the uprld forbear is rage,
Nor put the Church in fear:
S.2

Ifr❜el mult live through ev'ry age,
And be th' Almighty's care.

PAUSE II.

Is Thus were the tribes from bondage brought
And left the hated ground;
Each fome Egyptian spoils had got,

And not one feeble found.

16 The Lord himself chose out their way,
And mark'd their journies right;
Gave them a leading-cloud by day,
A fiery guide by night.

15 They thirft; and waters from the rock
In rich abundance flow,

And follwing fill the course they took,
Ran all the defart through.

18 O wond'rous Stream! O bleffed Type
Of ever-flowing. grace!

So Carift, our Rock, maintains our life
Through all this wilderness.

19 Thus guarded by th' Almighty Hand,
The chofen tribes poffeft
Canaan, the rich, the promis'd land;
And there enjoy'd their reft.

20 Then let the world forbear its rage,
The Church renounce her fear;
Ifr'el muß live through ev'ry age,
And he th Almighty's care.

PSALM CVI. First part. Long metre.

Praife to God; or, Communion with Saints.
O God the Great, the Ever Bleft,
Let lungs of honor be addreft;

His mercy firm forever ftands;

Give him the thanks his love demands.
2 Who knows the wonders of Thy ways!
Who fhall fulfil thy boundless praife?