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To give them fongs for fighing,
Their darkness turn to light;
Whofe fouls, in mifery dying,
Were precious in His fight.

By fuch fhall he be feared,
While fun and moon endure,
Beloved, adored, revered,

For he fhall judge the poor, Through changing generations, With juftice, mercy, truth, While ftars maintain their stations, And moons renew their youth.

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Kings fhall fall down before Him,
And gold and incenfe bring;
All nations fhall adore him,

His praise all people fing:
For He fhall have dominion
O'er river, sea, and shore ;
Far as the eagle's pinion,

Or dove's light wing can foar.

For Him fhall prayer unceasing,
And daily vows afcend;
His kingdom ftill increafing,
A kingdom without end:
The mountain-dews fhall nourish
A feed in weakness fown,
Whose fruit shall spread and flourish,
And shake like Lebanon.

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VI.

PSALM CXXII.

HAT joy, while thus I view the day,
That warns my thirsting foul away,
What tranfports fill my breaft!
For, lo! my great Redeemer's power
Unfolds the everlasting door,

And leads me to His Reft.

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The feftal morn, my God, is come,
That calls me to the hallowed dome,
Thy presence to adore ;

My feet the fummons fhall attend,
With willing steps thy courts afcend,
And tread th' ethereal floor.

E'en now to my expecting eyes
The heaven-built towers of Salem rife;
E'en now, with glad furvey,

I view her manfions that contain
Th' angelic forms, an awful train,
And fhine with cloudless day.

Hither, from earth's remoteft end,
Lo, the redeemed of God afcend,
Their tribute hither bring:

Here, crowned with everlasting joy,

In hymns of praise their tongues employ,
And hail the Immortal King:

Great Salem's King, who bids each state
On her decrees dependent wait;

In her, ere time begun,

High on eternal base upreared,
His hands the regal feat prepared
For Jeffe's favoured Son.

Mother of cities! o'er thy head

See peace, with healing wings outspread,
Delighted fix her stay.

How bleft, who calls himself thy friend!
Succefs his labours fhall attend,

And fafety guard his way.

Thy walls, remote from hoftile fear,
Nor the loud voice of tumult hear,
Nor war's wild wastes deplore ;
There smiling plenty takes her ftand,
And in thy courts with lavish hand
Has poured forth all her store.

Let me, bleft seat, my name behold
Among thy citizens enroll'd,

In thee for ever dwell.

Let Charity my steps attend,

My fole companion and my friend!
And Faith and Hope farewell!

ZUINGER.

* Mr. Merrick's tranflation of the Latin verses of Zuinger, and found in Melchior Adamus' work, "Vitæ Germanorum Medicorum."

VI.

PSALM CXXII.

HAT joy, while thus I view the day,
That warns my thirsting foul away,
What tranfports fill my breast!
For, lo! my great Redeemer's power
Unfolds the everlasting door,

And leads me to His Reft.

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The feftal morn, my God, is come,
That calls me to the hallowed dome,
Thy prefence to adore;

My feet the fummons fhall attend,
With willing steps thy courts afcend,
And tread th' ethereal floor.

E'en now to my expecting eyes
The heaven-built towers of Salem rife;
E'en now, with glad furvey,

I view her manfions that contain
Th' angelic forms, an awful train,
And fhine with cloudless day.

Hither, from earth's remoteft end,
Lo, the redeemed of God afcend,
Their tribute hither bring:
Here, crowned with everlasting joy,
In hymns of praise their tongues employ,
And hail the Immortal King :

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