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Psal. VI

By John Milton

Topics: classic

Lord in thine anger do not reprehend me     Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;     Pity me Lord for I am much deject     Am very weak and faint; heal and amend me,     For all my bones, that even with anguish ake,     Are troubled, yea my soul is troubled sore     And thou O Lord how long? turn Lord, restore     My soul, O save me for thy goodness sake     For in death no remembrance is of thee;     Who in the grave can celebrate thy praise?     Wearied I am with sighing out my dayes.     Nightly my Couch I make a kind of Sea;     My Bed I water with my tears; mine Eie     Through grief consumes, is waxen old and dark     Ith' mid'st of all mine enemies that mark.     Depart all ye that work iniquitie.     Depart from me, for the voice of my weeping     The Lord hath heard, the Lord hath heard my prai'r     My supplication with acceptance fair     The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping.     Mine enemies shall all be blank and dash't     With much confusion; then grow red with shame,     They shall return in hast the way they came     And in a moment shall be quite abash't.

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About John Milton

John Milton (1608–1674) was an English poet best known for "Paradise Lost" (1667), an epic poem retelling the biblical story of the Fall of Man. He also wrote "Paradise Regained," "Samson Agonistes," and the pastoral elegy "Lycidas," and is considered the greatest English epic poet.

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