PSALM LXI Yet Thy lovingkindness, Lord, Why art thou cast down, my soul? Thy salvation and thy God. 201 MRS. FOLLEN 79 PSALM LXI Wilt Thou listen, O God, to my prayer; Lead my heart, overwhelmed with despair, O Thou Refuge for all the oppressed, I will rest in the shade of Thy wing. For my prayer, O my God, Thou wilt hear, To those who shall serve Thee with fear, MRS. FOLLEN 80 PSALM LXVI Happy sons of Israel, Who in pleasant Canaan dwell, Say: How wonderful Thy deeds! Let this many-peopled earth, Hymns unto His honor sing. Come and see what God hath wroughtTerrible to human thought! He the billows did divide, Walled with waves on either side, While we passèd safe and dry; Then our souls were rapt with joy. Endless His dominion— All beholding from His throne. PSALM LXVI Bless the Lord! His praise be sung He our souls redeems from death. Lord, as silver purified, Thou hast with affliction tried; Trod on by their horses' hooves- I will to Thy house repair, All my vows devoutly pay, Uttered with my heart and tongue, When oppressed with powerful wrong. Fatlings I will sacrifice; Incense in perfume shall rise; Bullocks, shaggy goats, and rams, Offered up in sacred flames. You who great Jehovah fear, Come, oh! come, ye blest, and hear 203 Fervently to Him I cried; Would He not my prayers reject? But the Lord my prayers hath heard GEORGE SANDYS 81 PSALM XC O Lord! before the mountains' birth, Thou say'st to man, Return to dust! For in Thine all-eternal sight, A thousand long-revolving years With Thee, like rolling waves they pass, Or like the tender, springing grass PSALM XCII Exulting in its glittering crown, And withers in the chilling air. So teach us, Lord, to count our days, 205 MRS. FOLLEN 82 PSALM XCII Thou who art enthroned above- When the morning paints the skies, Take the lute and violin; Instruments strung with ten strings— While the silver cymbal rings. |