[Page 295]

The SONG of SIMEON paraphrased.

By Mr. MERRICK.
1 'TIS enough — the hour is come.
2 Now within the silent tomb
3 Let this mortal frame decay,
4 Mingled with its kindred clay;
5 Since thy mercies oft of old
6 By thy chosen seers foretold,
[Page 296]
7 Faithful now and stedfast prove,
8 God of truth and God of love!
9 Since at length my aged eye
10 Sees the day-spring from on high.
11 Son of righteousness, to thee
12 Lo! the nations bow the knee,
13 And the realms of distant kings
14 Own the healing of thy wings.
15 Those whom death had overspread
16 With his dark and dreary shade,
17 Lift their eyes, and from afar
18 Hail the light of Jacob's star;
19 Waiting till the promis'd ray
20 Turn their darkness into day.
21 See the beams intensely shed
22 Shine o'er Sion's favour'd head.
23 Never may they hence remove,
24 God of truth and God of love!

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 41K / ZIP - 5.0K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 785 / ZIP - 656 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - 1.2M)

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): The SONG of SIMEON paraphrased.
Author: James Merrick
Themes: religion
Genres: song; imitation; translation; paraphrase
References: DMI 27930

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 295-296. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.006) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

Editorial principles

The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.