Who leadest like a flock of sheep Thy loved Joseph's seed ; That sitt'st between the Cherubs bright, Between their wings out-spread; Shine forth, and from thy cloud give light, And on our foes thy dread. 2. In Ephraim's view and Benjamin's, And in Manasse's sight, a Awake thy strength, come, and be seen To save us by thy might. 3. Turn us again, thy grace divine To us, O God, vouchsafe; Cause thou thy face on us to shine, And then we shall be safe. 4. Lord God of Hosts, how long wilt thou, How long wilt thou declare Thy smoking wrath, and angry brow Against thy people's prayer! 5. Thou feed'st them with the bread of tears; Their bread with tears they eat ; And mak'st them largely drink the tears Wherewith their cheeks are wet. 6. A strife thou mak'st us and a prey To every neighbour foe; Among themselves they laugh, they play, a Gnorera. b Gnashanta. c Shalish. d Tilgnagu. 5 10 15 20 25 "Full of comparisons, and wounding flows." TODD. 7. Return us, and thy grace divine, And then we shall be safe. 8. A vine from Egypt thou hast brought, Thy free love made it thine, And drov'st out nations, proud and haut, To plant this lovely vine. 9. Thou didst prepare for it a place, And root it deep and fast, That it began to grow apace, And fill'd the land at last. 10. With her green shade that cover'd all, The hills were over-spread ; 30 35 40 Her other branches went. 12. Why hast thou laid her hedges low, And broken down her fence, That all may pluck her, as they go, With rudest violence? Ver. 35. 50 proud and haut,] So, in Com. v. 33. "An old, and haughty nation proud in arms.' Haut, French. T. WARTON. Milton copies Shakspeare precisely, Rich. III. A. ii. S. 3. "And the queen's sons and brothers, haught and proud." See also Lyly's Woman in the Moone, 1597. "Thy minde as hawte as Jupiters high thoughts." Sylvester has "haut ambition," Du Bart. 1621, p. 287. TODD. 13. The tusked boar out of the wood Up turns it by the roots; Wild beasts there brouze, and make their food 55 Her grapes and tender shoots. 14. Return now, God of Hosts, look down From Heaven, thy seat divine; Behold us, but without a frown, And visit this thy vine. 60 15. Visit this vine, which thy right hand Hath set, and planted long, And the young branch, that for thyself Thou hast made firm and strong. 16. But now it is consum'd with fire, 65 And cut with axes down; They perish at thy dreadful ire, At thy rebuke and frown. 17. Upon the man of thy right hand Let thy good hand be laid; Upon the son of man, whom thou Strong for thyself hast made. 18. So shall we not go back from thee To ways of sin and shame; Ver. 55. 70 there brouze,] So the first edition, 1673. "The browsing heard her branches waste; "And salvage boares plough up her root." TODD. Ver. 56. Her grapes and tender shoots.] So, in Comus, v. 296. Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots." T. WARTON. Quicken us thou; then gladly we 19. Return us, and thy grace divine, And then we shall be safe. 75 80 PSALM LXXXI. 1. To God our strength sing loud, and clear, Sing loud to God our King; To Jacob's God, that all may hear, Loud acclamations ring. 2. Prepare a hymn, prepare a song, 3. Blow, as is wont, in the new moon The appointed time, the day whereon Our solemn feast comes round. 4. This was a statute given of old For Israel to observe; A law of Jacob's God, to hold, From whence they might not swerve. 5. This he a testimony ordain'd The tongue I heard was strange. 5 10 15 20 His hands from pots, and miry soil, Deliver❜d were by me. 7. When trouble did thee sore assail, On me then didst thou call; a I tried thee at the water steep Of Meriba renown'd. 8. Hear, O my people, hearken well; I testify to thee, Thou ancient stock of Israel, If thou wilt list to me: 9. Throughout the land of thy abode No alien god shall be, Nor shalt thou to a foreign god In honour bend thy knee. 25 30 35 40 10. I am the Lord thy God, which brought 12. Then did I leave them to their will, And to their wandering mind; Their own conceits they follow'd still, Their own devices blind. a Be Sether ragnam. 50 |