Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.
Psalm IXXXIX. Joseph Hall
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In wicked men’s aduise,
Nor stood in sinners’ way,
Nor in their companies
That scorners are,
As their fit mate,
In scoffing chayre
Hath euer sate;
O Lord, sets his delight,
And in those lawes of thine
Studies all day and night.
Oh how that man
Thrice blessed is!
And sure shall gaine
Eternall blisse.
Set by the water-springs,
Which when his seasons
Most pleasant fruite forth brings,
Whose boughes so greene
Shall neuer fade,
But couered bene
With comely shade.
All his designes shall thriue,
Whereas the man vnright,
As chaffe which windes do driue,
With euery blast
Is tost on hy,
Nor can at last
In safety lie.
They dare not rise from dust,
Nor shall no sinner come
To glory of the iust.
For God will giue
The iust man’s way,
While sinner’s race
Run to decay.