The three First Verses of the 46th Psalm Paraphras'd. Nahum Tate Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ... 1677 pp. 109-110. [15],133p.

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The three First Verses of the 46th Psalm Paraphras'd . I. OUr Strength , is the Omnipotent ; We cannot therefore condescend to Fear , Tho danger in its gastliest shape appear ; Tho Mountains from their marble Roots were rent , And head-long to the Ocean hurld , Their Violent Career might shake the World ; But our fixt Feet shou'd keep their Ground , No Tremour in our Breast be found ; Our rais'd Heads shou'd o're-look the Floods , where Hills lay Drown'd . II . What tho the Sea , whose most capacious Womb Gave the Subverted Hills a Tomb ? What tho it's raging Waters roar , And swell in Mountains vast as those Which the profound Gulf gorg'd before ? This most impertinently angry Main , With its own Rocks fierce contest may maintain , But can no more our Passions discompose , Than when on a Serene and shiny day , Some shallow Riv'let we survey , Contesting with each Pibble for its Interrupted way .