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Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6 I am made like the Pelican ‖ that's in the Wilderness; ‖ I am like to the Bitten which ‖ affecteth Solitudes. ‖
6 I am made like the Pelican ‖ that's in the Wilderness; ‖ I am like to the Bitten• which ‖ affecteth Solitudes. ‖
7 I pass the weary Nights without ‖ enjoying any Sleep; ‖ and like the Sparrow am on the ‖ top of the House alone. ‖
8 My Enemies do cast on me ‖ Reproaches every Day; ‖ they that are mad against me do ‖ form cursing Oaths from me. ‖
9 For truly, as, * and in my Bread ‖ Ashes is what I eat; ‖ and my Drink I have mingled with ‖ the Tears that I have shed. ‖