- Lord give thy judgments to the King
- therein instruct him well:
- And with his son that princely thing,
- Lord let thy justice dwell.
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- 2 That he may govern uprightly,
- and rule thy folk aright.
- And so defend through equity,
- the poor that have no might.
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- 3 And let the mountains that are high,
- unto their folk give peace,
- And eke the little hills apply,
- in justice to increase:
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- 4 That he may help the weak and poor
- with aide, and make them strong:
- And eke destroy forevermore,
- all those that do them wrong.
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- 5 And then from age to age shall they
- regard and fear thy might:
- So long as Sun shall shine by day,
- or else the Moon by night.
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- 6 Lord make the king unto the just,
- like rain to fields new mown:
- And like to drops that lay the dust
- and fresh the land new sown.
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- 7 The just shall flourish in his time,
- and all shall be at peace:
- Until the moon shall leave to prime,
- waste, change, and to increase.
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- 8 He shall be Lord of Sea and land,
- from shore to shore throughout,
- And from the floods within the land,
- through all the earth about.
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- 9 The people that in desert dwell,
- shall kneel to him full thick:
- And all his enemies that rebel,
- the earth and dust shall lick.
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- 10 The Lords of all the Isles thereby,
- great gifts to him shall bring:
- The kings of Seba, and Araby,
- give many a costly thing.