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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.
1 WE by the Rivers which do run ‖ through' Babylon, sat there; ‖ yea, we poured out our Tears when we ‖ remembered Zion there. ‖
1 WE by the Rivers which do run ‖ thro' Babylon, sat there; ‖ yea, we pour'd out our Tears when we ‖ remembred Zion there. ‖
2 Upon the Willows in the midst ‖ thereof we hung our Harps. ‖
3 For they that Captiv'd us did there ‖ demand of us to Sing ‖ words of a Song, and they who laid‖ us in our ruinous heaps,‖ demanded mirth, Sing us, said they,‖ a Song of Zion, Sing! ‖