16 By their own treachery betray'd (5) Pills To the same ills, (5) that they Invented, and with those essay'd (6) Rich. To make the poor (6) their prey: Does this verse end according to the more modern art of poetry, as the author speaks in his preface? 17 O Lord, how glorious are the ways Do not these verses end Of Thy good Providence! very sublimely? Thou, Lord, Whose blessed Name I praise, True justice dost dispense VIII. PSALM OF DAVID: 1 The mighty powers, that celebrate That's a lie; for if Thy endless praises, can't relate they The glory they in Heaven survey: can survey it they can easily relate it. 2 _Young_ helpless _infants_ at the breast Young younglings. Their great Creator have confest, [The italics are And in their weakness spoke Thy pow'r, Swift's.] This stanza is just upon the purlieus between sense and nonsense. 4 Lord, what is wretched (7) man, I cry, (7) A very proper epithet Or all his sinful progeny, for those who are scarce That thou to them dost prove so kind! inferior to angels. 5 To honour Thou dost them prefer, A fine cadence that. To angels scarce inferior, 6 They over all Thy works command: 7 The flocks and herds o'er every field (1) That's a lie, for To their just lords obedience yield, sometimes they trespass And all (1) in full subjection stand: on other men's grounds. 8 O'er all the birds, that mount the air, (2) App_ai_r. And fish, that in the floods appear,(2) Man bears an arbitrary sway: Those, I think, are not very many: they are caught, but till then we have no great sway over them. IX. PSALM OF DAVID: 3 Confounded at the sight of Thee (3) The doctor's mistaken; My foes are put to flight; (3) for, when people are confounded, they cannot fly. 4 Thus thou, great God of equity, (4) Against Sternhold Dost still assert my right. (4) and Hopkins.