| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Psalm XLIII | | XLIV. Francis Davison |
| | | I APPEALE, oh God! to thee; | |
| Oh, give sentence, Lord, with me, | |
| And defend my helples cause | |
| ’Gainst such men as hate thy lawes: | |
| Oh deliuer me from those | 5 |
| That deceitfully can gloze. | |
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| For thou art the God of whom | |
| All my strength and help doth come: | |
| Why, oh why hast thou from thee | |
| So estrang’d and parted me? | 10 |
| And why doth my pace, so slowe, | |
| Me deiected, heartles, showe, | |
| While insulting enemies | |
| Prest me with their iniuries? | |
| Oh send out thy truth and light | 15 |
| To instruct and lead me right, | |
| To conduct me to thy hill | |
| And thy dwelling, holy still. | |
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| Then vnto thyne altar I | |
| With oblations will hye, | 20 |
| Offring these to thee, who art | |
| Joy and gladnes to my heart; | |
| And vpon my harp will sing | |
| Praise to thee, O God my King! | |
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| O my soule, oh, why art thou | 25 |
| So cast downe? so heauy now? | |
| And why art thou in my breast | |
| So disturbed of thy rest? | |
| Wayt on God, be patient, | |
| And in him be confident. | 30 |
| Yet I will remaine the same, | |
| To give thankes to his great name; | |
| For he is my God of might, | |
| Who my countenance setts right. | | | | |
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