YE WEARIE WAYFARER 



Does HE warble '' Non nobis Domine,'' 

 With his monarch in blissful concert, free 

 From all malice to flesh inherent ; 



Zeruiah's offspring, who served so well, 

 Yet between the horns of the altar fell — 



Does HIS voice the " Quid gloriaris'' swell, 

 Or the '' Quare fremuertifit " ? 



It may well be thus, where David sings, 

 And Uriah joins in the chorus, 



But while earth to earthy matter clings, 



Neither you nor the bravest of Judah's 

 kings 

 As a pattern can stand before us. 



Fytte V 

 LEX TALIONIS 



A MORAL DISCOURSE 



*' And if there's blood upon his hand, 

 'Tis but the blood of deer." — W. Scott. 



To beasts of the field, and fowls of the air, 



And fish of the sea alike, 

 Man's hand is ever slow to spare, 



And ever ready to strike ; 



With a license to kill, and to work our will. 



In season by land or by water, 

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