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THE MINDES MELODIE.
THE SONG OF SIMEON.
S. Luke, 2. verse 25.
Since that mine eye,
Before I die,
O Lord doth see
Thine holie one—our hope and onelie stay—
Whom thou hast send, 5
In latter end,
For to extend
Thy mercies great, that doe endure for ay;
Then let thy seruant, Lord,
Depart in peace; 10
And me, of thine accord,
Send to my place;
As thou hast said,
And promise made,
That can not faile nor fall in vaine away : 15
For I rejoyce,
In heart and voyce,
That I haue scene thy sauing health this day;
Whom thou, a light,
Hast set, full bright, 20
Before the sight
Of Gentiles far, and people round about;
And sendst with grace,
Sinne to deface,
And glorious peace 25
For to proclame, the earth and world throughout;
And, as thy prophetes told,
A signe to bee,
For nations to behold
With faithfull eye; 3°
In speciall
Thine Israel
THE MINDES MELODIE.
THE SONG OF SIMEON.
S. Luke, 2. verse 25.
Since that mine eye,
Before I die,
O Lord doth see
Thine holie one—our hope and onelie stay—
Whom thou hast send, 5
In latter end,
For to extend
Thy mercies great, that doe endure for ay;
Then let thy seruant, Lord,
Depart in peace; 10
And me, of thine accord,
Send to my place;
As thou hast said,
And promise made,
That can not faile nor fall in vaine away : 15
For I rejoyce,
In heart and voyce,
That I haue scene thy sauing health this day;
Whom thou, a light,
Hast set, full bright, 20
Before the sight
Of Gentiles far, and people round about;
And sendst with grace,
Sinne to deface,
And glorious peace 25
For to proclame, the earth and world throughout;
And, as thy prophetes told,
A signe to bee,
For nations to behold
With faithfull eye; 3°
In speciall
Thine Israel
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| Description | Edited by James Cranstoun. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Contents: Introduction -- The cherrie and the slae. 1597 -- Polwart and Montgomeries flyting. 1629 -- Sonnets -- Miscellaneous poems -- Epitaphs -- Devotional poems -- The mindes melodie. 1605 -- Poems attributed to Alexander Montgomerie -- Notes -- Glossary. |
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