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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Psalme XCIII

VI. Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke

CLOTH’D with state, and girt with might,

Monarck-like Jehova raignes:

He who earthe’s foundation pight,

Pight at first, and yet sustaines:

He whose stable throne disdaines

Motion’s shock, and ages’ flight:

He who endless one remaines,

One the same in changelesse plight.

Rivers, yea, though rivers rore,

Roring though sea-billows rise;

Vex the deepe, and breake the shore,

Stronger art thou, Lord of skies.

Firme and true thy promise lies

Now and still as heretofore:

Holy worshipp never dies

In thy howse where we adore.