Versos English Cotton Mather PSAL. CXXXI. A Song of degrees of David

English poem

PSAL. CXXXI. A Song of degrees of David

by (1663–1728)

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My heart's not haughty Lord, nor lofty are mine eyes: In things too great or high for me, is not mine exercise. My self I surely have compos'd and made to rest. Like as a child that weaned is from off his mothers breast.

I'm like a weaned child. Let Israel then stay With expectation on the Lord from henceforth and for aye.