Equity

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Equity

No bird can sing in tune but that the Lord

Sits throned in equity above the heaven,

And holds the righteous balance always even;

No heart can true response to love afford

Wherein from one to eight not every chord

Is yet attuned by the spirits seven:

For tuneful no bird sings but that the Lord

Is throned in equity above high heaven.

Oh heart, by wrong unfilial scathed and scored,

And from thy humble throne with mazedness driven,

Take courage: when thy wrongs thou hast forgiven,

Thy rights in love thy God will see restored:

No bird could sing in tune but that the Lord

Sits throned in equity above the heaven.