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PRAYER (1) by GEORGE HERBERT

Poet Analysis

First Line: PRAYER, THE CHURCH'S BANQUET, ANGELS' AGE
Last Line: THE LAND OF SPICES, SOMETHING UNDERSTOOD.
Subject(s): CHRISTIANITY; PRAYER; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

Prayer, the churches banquet, angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;

Engine against th' Almightie, sinner's towre,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-daies-world transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;

Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
Exalted manna, gladnesse of the best,
Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices, something understood.



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