Fits tune: Wiltshire [Smart]
('Through all the changing scenes of life')
Psalm 79 v.8 - 13
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O Lord, remember not our sins
Nor those of kiths or kins
Let your tender mercies help soon
Us, we to you attune
For we very low are brought
Help us, you we have sought
You the God of our salvation
To all and each nation
Help us for your glory, us aid
Then we be not afraid
Deliver us, our sins forgive
That we through you may live
Let sighing of the prisoner
Come before you, and stir
Yourself, your great power it show
That they your grace may know
Render to enemies righteously
Their reproach, so it be
For they have you reproached, O Lord
And not believed your word
So will we, sheep of your pasture
Give you thanks e'er, concur
To show your praise, and thus your song
Generations prolong
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: July 11th, 2017 08:30
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 86 86 metre (Common Metre = CM). I'm repeating myself with some poem titles! They're not the same poems though - don't think so. No.1 is different. And not an intentional series either. The original Psalm is called a 'lamenting' Psalm.
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Thanks STEVE ~ I LOVE COVENTRY CATHEDRAL ~ very inspirational in so many ways. The hymn they are singing is very apposite for todays climate ~ Pray for Theresa May that GOD will grant her the gift of WISDOM & KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING ~ Amen. Thanks for your Poem based on a great PSALM. I love your medieval style of writing ~ it is RHYME LED (hymns must rhyme !) You therefor adopt a Germanic Grammar with the verbs at the end of the line. That is is why Grman jokes always fall flat ~ the tale is in the sting ! Check lines 1 & 2 (V 2) lines 3 & 4 (V 3) lines 3 & 4 (V 4) etc. Yoiur Poems read as if they were written by John Bunyan ~ perhaps that is intentional ! Thanks for sharing ~ BRIAN As I have been so so analytical with your Poem please reciprocate by adding a CITY (and I will add a Picture) to my latest FUSION ~ Thanks B.
Thanks B. I don't know any German jokes! heehee. It just that I shuffle some lines around, often to make them rhyme. I do some where not every line rhymes. There's a bit of 'damnation' in that Psalm, wishing horrible things on enemies. Erm, I left that bit out.
I've read 'Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan, and there's his: 'He who would valiant be' - hobgoblins, etc.
A verse filled with faith deserving a loud Amen. Thanks for this lovely read Steve.
Thanks F. As I say, it's not a particularly 'lovely' Psalm in places. It calls down vengeance on enemies. Though it's tit-for-tat, as the people were mistreated badly.
Wiltshire - was chatting to neighbour in my village who breeds Wiltshire sheep - a little known breed that sheds its fleece each spring and saves on not having to be shorn. Sorry - a useless bit of info if you don't already know about the breed and nothing to do with another super piece of work.
Thanks M. Well, it may be relevant. I\'ve not looked into the origin of the tune name, except that \'Smart\' is the surname of the composer of that particular version of the tune name of \'Wiltshire\'. And sheep get a look-in in the Bible more than once. People are called sheep there too, as in my last verse!
Amen, Orchi, Amen.
Thanks G/F.
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