| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | A Song of the Faithfull for the Mercies of God | | X. Michael Drayton |
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OH liuing Lord, I still will laude thy name! | |
| For though thou wert offended once with mee, | |
| Thy heauy wrath is turn’d from me againe, | |
| And graciously thou now doost comfort mee. | |
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| Behold, the Lord is my saluation, | 5 |
| I trust in him, and feare not any power: | |
| He is my song, the strength I lean vpon; | |
| The Lord God is my louing Sauiour. | |
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| Wherefore with ioy out of the well of life | |
| Draw foorth sweet water which it dooth affoord: | 10 |
| And in the day of trouble and of strife | |
| Cal on the name of God the liuing Lord. | |
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| Extol his works and woonders to the sunne, | |
| Unto al people let his praise be showne; | |
| Record in song the meruails he hath done, | 15 |
| And let his glorie through the world be blowne. | |
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| Crie out aloud and shout on Sion hill; | |
| I giue thee charge that this proclaimed be,— | |
| The great and mightie King of Israëll | |
| Now only dwelleth in the midst of thee. | 20 | | | |
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