On the Fifth Commandment

Great pleasure, oh Lord, Have they who fulfill Thy sacred commands, And follow thy will.

And if fitting honor Our parents we pay, No less satisfaction Ourselves have than they.

Then let us, oh Lord, Our parents revere; Obey them through life, And love while we fear:

Lest Canaan's hard fortune, Or Absalom's fate, Or Sampson's or worse, our Rebellion await.