| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Psalm CXXXII | | XLIV. Francis Davison |
| | | WHAT is so sweete, so amiable, | |
| As brother’s love vnfeyn’d? | |
| Whose hearts in bands inviolable | |
| Of concord are enchayn’d? | |
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| Its like vnto that pretious oyntment | 5 |
| Whose odour far did spread, | |
| Vs’d to embalme, by God’s appoyntment, | |
| The high priest Aron’s head: | |
| Whence in a fragrant shower descending, | |
| It deaw’d his beard and face; | 10 |
| Then to his robes his sweetnes lending, | |
| About his skirts did trace. | |
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| Or to the deawe wherewith gray morning | |
| Empearles mount Hermon’s head, | |
| His greenes with peckled flowers adorning, | 15 |
| Artlessly diap’red; | |
| From Hermon to mount Sion powring | |
| His fertill riuolets, | |
| And all engreening and enflowering | |
| Those pleasant mountaynets. | 20 |
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| Where this love-knot remaines vnbroken, | |
| God heapes of blisse doth send; | |
| Yea, heauenly blisse it doth betoken, | |
| Exempt from change or end. | | | | |
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