Sion it is where Thou art praysed Sion O God where vowes they pay Thee There all mens prayers to Thee raysed Return possest of what they pray Thee There Thou my sin prevailing to my shame Dost turn to smoake of sacrificing flame O he of blisse is not deceived Whom chosen Thou unto Thee takest And whom into Thy Court received Thou of Thy checkroll number makest The dainty Viands of thy Sacred store Shall feed him so he shall not hunger more From thence it is Thy threatning thunder Least we by wrong should be disgraced Doth strike Our foes with feare and wonder O Thou on whom their hopes are placed Whom either earth doth stedfastly sustain Or cradle rocks of restless wavy plain Thy virtue stayes the mighty mountains Guirded with power, with strength abounding The roaring damm of watry fountains Thy beck doth make surcease her sounding When stormy uproares tosse the peoples brain The Civill sea to calm thou bringst again. Where earth doth end with endlesse ending All such as dwell thy Signs affright them And in Thy prayse their voices spending Both houses of the sun delight them Both whence he comes, when early he awakes And where he goes, when evning rest he takes. Thy eye from heav'n this land beholdeth Such fruitfull dewes down on it raining That store house like her lapp enfoldeth Assured hope of plough-mans gaining Thy flowing streames her drouth do temper so That buryed seed through yeilding grave doth grow. Drunck is each ridg of Thy cupp drinking Each clod relenteth at Thy dressing Thy cloud-born waters inly sinking Fair spring sprouts forth blest with Thy blessing The fertile yeare is, with Thy bounty croun'd And where thou go'est, thy goings fatt the ground. Plenty bedewes the desert places A hedg of mirth the hills encloseth The feilds with flocks have hid their faces A robe of corn the vallyes cloatheth Deserts and hills and fields, and vallys all Rejoice, shout, sing, and on Thy name do call. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SNOW-STORM; SCENE IN A VERMONT WINTER by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN THE GARDEN SEAT by THOMAS HARDY TWO LIVES: CONCLUSION. INDIAN SUMMER by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD THE FAMILY MAN by JOHN GODFREY SAXE BLUE CANTON-WARE by SARAH A. ATHEARN EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 6. FAIR AND SOFTLY by PHILIP AYRES |