6 Thou in the lowest pit profound Where thickest darkness hovers round, 7 Thy wrath, from which no shelter saves, Thou break'st upon me all thy waves, 8 Thou dost my friends from me estrange, Me to them odious, for they change, 9 Through sorrow, and affliction great, 10 Wilt thou do wonders on the dead? And praise thee from their loathsome bcl 11 Shall they thy loving kindness tell 12 In darkness can thy mighty hand 13 But I to thee, O Lord, do cry, And up to thee my prayer doth hie, 14 Why wilt thou, Lord, my soul forsake, 15 That am already bruised, and 2 shake Astonished with thine ire. 16 Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow, Thy threatenings cut me through: 1 The Hebrew bears both. LL 2 Præ concussione. 17 All day they round about me go, Like waves they me pursue. 18 Lover and friend thou hast removed, They fly me now whom I have loved, A PARAPHRASE ON PSALM CXIV. [This and the following Psalm were done by the Author at fifte years old.] WHEN the blest seed of Terah's faithful son, Why fled the ocean? And why skipped the mountains? Of him that ever was, and aye shall last; Oh, let us his praises tell, Who doth the wrathful tyrants quell: For his, &c. Who with his miracles doth make Who by his wisdom did create Who did the solid earth ordain Who, by his all commanding might, And caused the golden-tresséd sun The hornéd moon to shine by night, He, with his thunder-clasping hand, And in despite of Pharao fell, The ruddy waves he cleft in twain For his, &c. The floods stood still like walls of glass, While the Hebrew bands did pass : For his, &c. In bloody battle he brought down He foiled bold Seon and his host, And large-limbed Og he did subȧue, For his, &c. And to his servant Israel, He gave their land therein to dwell: He hath, with a piteous eye, Beheld us in our misery: All living creatures he doth feed, And with full hand supplies their need: Let us therefore warble forth That his mansion hath on high JOHANNIS MILTONI LONDINENSIS Poemata. QUORUM PLERAQUE INTRA ANNUM ÆTATIS VIGESIMUM CONSCRIPSIT. Hæc quæ sequuntur de Authore testimonia, tametsi ipse intellige. bat non tam de se quam supra se esse dicta, eo quod præclaro ingenio viri, nec non amici ita ferè solent laudare, ut omnia suis potius vir. tutibus, quam veritati congruentia nimis cupidè affingant, noluit tamen horum egregiam in se voluntatem non esse notam; cum alii præsertim ut id faceret magnopere suaderent. Dum enim nimiæ laudis invidiam totis ab se viribus amolitur, sibique quod plus æquo est non attributum esse mavult, judicium interim hominum cordatorum atque illustrium quin summo sibi honori ducat, negare non potest. JOANNES BAPTISTA MANSUS, MARCHIO VILLENSIS, NEAPOLITANUS, AD JOANNEM MILTONIUM ANGLUM. Ur mens, forma, decor, facies, mos, si pietas sic, AD JOANNEM MILTONEM ANGLUM TRIPLICI POESEOS LAUREA CORONANDUM, Græca nimirum, Latina, atque Hetrusca, Epigramma Joannis CEDE Meles, cedat depressa Mincius urna; |