| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | All Creatures Praise God | | LXV. Peter Pett |
| | | ALL 1 creatures of the eternall God but man | |
| In seuerall sorts doe glorify his name: | |
| Things dumbe and meerely senceless, as they can, | |
| Yet seeme to prayse and magnify the same: | |
| Is it not then an ignominious shame | 5 |
| That man should be to them inferiour, | |
| Of whom God made him lord and governour? | |
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| Each tree doth seeme tenne thousand tongues to haue, | |
| With them to laude the Lord omnipotent; | |
| Each leafe that with winde’s gentle breath doth waue | 10 |
| Seemes as a tongue to speak to this intent, | |
| In language admirably excellent. | |
| Leaues better tongues then tongues that leaue their duty, | |
| And loue to talk of nothing but of beauty. | |
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| The sundry sorts of fragrant floures doe seeme | 15 |
| Sundry discourses God to glorify: | |
| For sweeter volumes may we them esteeme | |
| Then such as handle with diuersity | |
| The traynes and stratagems of fantasy: | |
| For all these creatures in their seueral sorte | 20 |
| Prayse God, and man vnto the same exhort. | |
| | | Note 1. LXV. Peter Pett.—He wrote “Time’s Iourney to seeke his daughter Truth, and Truth’s letter to Fame,” which was published in 1599. [back] | | |
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