first six verses of the ninetieth psalm versified, the

o thou, the first, the greatest friend

of all the human race!

whose strong right hand has ever been

their stay and dwelling place!

before the mountains heav'd their heads

beneath thy forming hand,

before this ponderous globe itself

arose at thymand;

that pow'r which rais'd and still upholds

this universal frame,

from countless, unbeginning time

was ever still the same.

those mighty periods of years

which seem to us so vast,