IN DEDICATION TO GOD :

                                                            A PSALM OF SCEPTRE

      BEFORE I SAID THE SUBTLETY OF THE WICKED HAS ROBBED ME, THOU SAYEST THE END FOR        RIGHTEOUSNESS
     .BEFORE I WALKED FOR CADENCE,THE SHORT WORK MEASURED BEATS ON EVERMORE.
      BEFORE A YOUTH  PRESSED UPON HIS PROVERBS,A kING HAD LOOSED THE SPECIAL                          QUICKNESS.
      BEFORE I AWAKENED,THE IMMORTAL PROMISEWAS SEALED IN HIGHTS AND GODSEND               WAS THE TEAT OF THE HOST.

      BUT AM I WALKED AS OTHER MEN?WHOSE TONGUE IS BENT ON BLACKEST GLUTONNY ?OR       THE SONS OF GOD IN STEADY LAPSE ?OR THY RIGHTEOUS LOVER WHEN CLAY WAS QUICK             FRESHMORTER UPON COMMAND TO STAND AS A MAN?
      OR THE INNOCENT IGNORANT ? FOR RESPECT OF PERSONS THOU HAS DENIED.

      YET I PONDER THESE VIRGINS TO THY RIGHTFUL BURDENS,AND I NOT THY PAVERS ARE                    MOSTLY THE POOR AND THEIR POEMS CAN GO DOWN UNDER THEM.

      BUT THOU ART GOD ALONE ,FOR WHEREAFTER  THE RIGHTEOUS AFFLICTION DO THE                                              CHASTENED MAKE NO STANZA TO THEE.OH LORD?

                                      IS THY PROVING EVER GAINSAYING TRUTH?

      SURELY THY MERCY SCORNS A DIVORCEMENT BEGINNING AND END   .THERE FORE  EVERMORE WAS WROUGHT JUST SO UPON THE RIGHT OF PASSION IN THNE EYE AND THE GIFT OF SOUL WAS MADE FOR A PERFECTING VESSEL UPON THY FASHIONING .RIGHTEOUS ZEAL ,OH         HOLY GOD ,MAKETYH THY GOOD TREE ,FOR THE GHOST OF THE TREE SEKETH LIFE.

 .NEVER HAS  THY WORD BEEN THAT THE GOOD SHOULD STRIVE EVERMORE ,AND EARLY WAS THY REPROACH,OH MOST HIGH:  NOW WHO DID GET THY  SPEECH CLAIMS IN ABSOLUTES. THE                                LONG BAD   COULD SHOW NO ROOTS AT HARVEST. .

 
 
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