[20] Eliot employed the figure 8, set horizontally, to express a peculiar sound. Otherwise he used the English alphabet in its ordinary powers. [Transcriber's Note: As indicated in the footnote above, the original text displayed the infinity symbol in place of a unique vowel sound. In the text transcription of this book, the infinity symbol is represented as the numeral eight within brackets: [8].] This appears to have been rendered from the version of the psalms appended to an old edition of King James' Bible of 1611, and not from the versification of Watts. By comparing it with this, as exhibited below, there will be found the same metre, eights and sixes, the same syllabical quantity, (if the notation be rightly conceived,) and the same coincidence of rhyme at the second and fourth lines of each verse; although it required an additional verse to express the entire psalm. It could therefore be sung to the ordinary tunes in use in Eliot's time, and, taken in connection with his entire version, including the Old and New Testament, evinces a degree of patient assiduity on the part of that eminent missionary, which is truly astonishing: The Lord is my shepherd, I'll not want; 2. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. 3. My soul he doth restore again and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness E'en for his own name's sake. 4. Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill; For thou art with me and thy rod and staff me comfort still. 5. My table thou hast furnished in presence of my foes; My head thou dost with oil annoint, and my cup overflows. 6. Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; And in God's house forevermore my dwelling place shall be. The harmony of numbers has always detracted from the plain sense, and the piety of thought, of the scriptures, which is the probable cause of so many failures on the subject. In the instance of this Psalm, it will be observed, by a comparison, that Watts, who has so generally succeeded, does not come up, in any respect, to the full literal meaning of the original, which is well preserved, with the requisite harmony, in the old version.