| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | Psalm CXXXVII | | VIII. Henry Ainsworth |
| | | BY Babel’s rivers there sate wee, | |
| Yea wept, when wee did mind Sion; | |
| The willowes that amidds it bee | |
| Our harps we hanged them upon: | |
| For songs of us there ask did they | 5 |
| That had us captive led along; | |
| And mirth they that us heaps did lay, | |
| Sing unto us some Sion’s song. | |
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| Jehovah’s song how sing shall wee | |
| Within a forreyn people’s land? | 10 |
| Jerusalem, if I doe thee | |
| Forget, forget let my right hand, | |
| Cleave let my tongue to my palat, | |
| If I do not in mind thee bear; | |
| If I Jerusalem doe not | 15 |
| Above my cheifest joy prefer. | |
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| Remember, Lord, to Ædom’s sonns | |
| Day of Jerusalem, who sayd, | |
| Rase, rase to her foundations! | |
| Daughter of Babel, wastful layd, | 20 |
| O blessed he that thy reward | |
| Payes thee, which thou rewardest us! | |
| O blessed he that takes, and hard | |
| Against the rock thy babes doth crush! | | | | |
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