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

Psalme CXXXIII

VI. Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke

HOW good, and how beseeming well

It is that we,

Who brethren be,

As brethren should in concord dwell!

Like that deere oile that Aron beares,

Which fleeting down

To foote from crown

Embalms his beard and robe he weares.

Or like the teares the morne doth shedd,

Which ly on ground

Empearled round,

On Sion or on Hermon’s head.

For join’d therewith the Lord doth give

Such grace, such blisse,

That where it is

Men may for ever blessed live.