| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Psalm CXXIII | | XLIV. Francis Davison |
| | | WITH miserie enclos’d, | |
| By all the world oppos’d, | |
| To thee I lift mine eie, | |
| Oh thou that dwell’st on high; | |
| Assur’d that thou wilt heare, | 5 |
| And me, deiected, cheere. | |
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| Lo! as a seruant’s eie | |
| Still lookes regardfully | |
| Vpon his master’s hand, | |
| For gyftes, more than command; | 10 |
| And as a hand-maid still | |
| Attends her mistris’ will; | |
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| So we, with sorrow fraight, | |
| Ne’er sunck, vpon thee waite; | |
| Our hopefull eie and heart, | 15 |
| Fix’d on thee neuer start, | |
| Till thou, for thine owne sake, | |
| Some pittie on vs take. | |
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| Oh Lord! we doe resort | |
| To thee, our safest port: | 20 |
| With help compassionate | |
| Our healthles, hopeles state; | |
| For we, and we alone, | |
| Are scornd and trampled on. | |
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| Our soules are fill’d with vaunts, | 25 |
| And with reproachfull taunts, | |
| From them that wealthie be, | |
| And hate both vs and thee; | |
| And with derisions | |
| From prowd and mightie ones. | 30 | | | |
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