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An entry on George Wither's metrical paraphrase of Psalm 137.

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Authored by George Wither, this rendering of Psalm 137 in six stanzas of six lines was first published in his The Psalms of David Translated into Lyrick-Verse (1632). It was later reprinted in the Anthologia Davidica (1846, pp. 479–481).

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