1

  The Lord my pasture shall prepare,
  And feed me with a shepherd’s care;
  His presence shall my wants supply,
  And guard me with a watchful eye: 
  My noon-day walks he shall attend,
  And all my midnight hours defend.

  2

  When in the sultry glebe I faint,
  Or on the thirsty mountain pant;
  To fertile vales and dewy meads
  My weary wandering steps he leads: 
  Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
  Amid the verdant landscape flow.

  3

  Though in the paths of death I tread,
  With gloomy horrors overspread,
  My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,
  For thou, O Lord, art with me still;
  Thy friendly crook shall give me aid,
  And guide me through the dreadful shade.

  4

  Though in a bare and rugged way,
  Through devious lonely wilds I stray,
  Thy bounty shall my wants beguile: 
  The barren wilderness shall smile,
  With sudden greens and herbage crown’d,
  And streams shall murmur all around.

END OF ADDISON’S POEMS.

Footnotes: 

[Footnote 2:  ‘Majesty:’  King William.]

[Footnote 3:  ‘Seneffe:’  lost by William to the French in 1674.  Claverhouse fought with him at this battle.]

[Footnote 4:  The four last lines of the second and third stanzas were added by Mr Tate.]

[Footnote 5:  ‘Eridanus:’  the Po.]

[Footnote 6:  ‘Such as of late.’  See Macaulay’s ‘Essay on Addison,’ and the ‘Life’ in this volume, for an account of this extraordinary tempest.]

[Footnote 7:  ‘Tallard,’ or Tallart:  an eminent French marshal, taken prisoner at Blenheim; he remained in England for seven years.]

[Footnote 8:  A comedy written by Sir Richard Steel.]

[Footnote 9:  A dramatic poem written by the Lord Lansdown.]

[Footnote 10:  ‘Smith:’  Edmund, commonly called ‘Rag;’ see Johnson’s ‘Poets.’]

[Footnote 11:  ‘Lyaeus:’  Bacchus.]

[Footnote 12:  ‘Princess of Wales:’  Willielinina Dorothea Carolina of Brandenburg-Anspach—­afterwards Caroline, Queen of George II.; she figures in the ‘Heart of Mid-Lothian.’]

[Footnote 13:  ‘Gloriana:’  Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. See our edition of Waller.]

[Footnote 14:  ‘Sir Godfrey Kneller:’  born at Lubeck in 1648; became a painter of portraits; visited England; was knighted by William III.; died in 1723; lies in Westminster Abbey.]

[Footnote 15:  This refers to a portrait of George I.]

[Footnote 16:  ‘R——­:’  Rich.]

[Footnote 17:  Otherwise,
                    ‘Thy goodness I’ll proclaim;’
              And,
                    ‘Resume the glorious theme.’ ]

THE LIFE OF JOHN GAY.