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PSALM 84, by                    
First Line: How lovely is thy dwelling
Last Line: Whose confidence is built on thee.


How Lovely is Thy dwelling
Great God to whom all greatness is belonging
To view Thy Courts, farr, farr from any telling
My Soul doth long and pine with longing
Unto the God that liveth
The God that all life giveth
My heart and body both aspire
Above delight, beyond desire.

Alas, the sparrow knoweth
The house where free, and feareless shee resideth
Directly to the Neast the swallow goeth
Where with her sonns she safe abideth
O Altars Thyne most Mighty
In warr, yea most Almighty
Thy Altars Lord, Ah! Why should I
From Altars thyne excluded ly.

O happy, who remaineth
Thy household man, and still thy prayse unfoldeth
O happy who himself on Thee susteineth
Who to Thy house his journy holdeth
Meeseems I see them going
Where Mulberrys are growing
How wells they digg in thirsty Plaine
And cisterns make for falling rain

Me sees I se augmented
Still troop with troop, till all at length discover
Sion, wherto their sight is represented
The Lord of hosts, the Sion lover
O Lord, O God most mighty
In warr, yea most Allmighty
Heare what I begg, hearken I say
O Jacobs God to what I pray.

Thou art the shield us shieldeth
Then Lord behold the face of Thyne Anoynted
One day spent in Thy Courts more comfort yeeldeth
Than thousands other wise appoynted
I count it clearer pleasure
To spend my Ages treasure
Wayting a Porter at Thy Gates
Than dwell A Lord with wicked mates.

Thou art the Sun that shineth
Thou art the buckler Lord that us defendeth
Glory and Grace Jehovas hand assigneth
And good without refusall sendeth
To him, who truly treadeth
The Path to pureness leadeth
O Lord of might, most blessed hee
Whose Confidence is built on Thee.





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