POETICAL PARAPHRASE OF PSALM I.
By Editor
BLEST is the man who in the ways of sin,
And counsel of the wicked walks not in;
Who shuns the pathway pressed by sinners' feet,
And ne'er is found within the scorner's seat.
But in the law of God he takes delight,
And ponders well its precepts day and night.
He like the fresh and beauteous tree shall be,
Which planted by the water brooks we see,
Which in due time with ample fruitage glows,
Whose leaf fades not, for never drouth it knows.
The guardian hand of Heaven shall him attend,
And whatsoe'er he does, find prosperous end. Not so the ungodly; dark shall close their day,
They are like chaff which tempests bear away.
Therefore they in the Judgment shall not stand,
Nor share the pardon Jesus' love has planned.
And when the hosts redeemed tread heavenly ground,
In the glad throng their presence is not found.
For lo! the Lord approves his people's way,
But sinners perish all in dire dismay.