Friday, January 3, 2003

Prayer (I) Comments

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Prayer the Church's banquet, angels' age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;
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George Herbert
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jon heatley 31 July 2020

now I understand why the BBC sunday morning religious program is called 'something understood'

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Joshua Adeyemi 16 April 2017

Wow...intriguing! . Prayer is the key! . Thanks for Sharing with us.

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Gabrielle A. Macdonald 19 December 2006

One of the best loved of all H's poems: a list of analogies for prayer - and that last line of the couplet: a) in my memory forever; and b) could be a line from a much more modern poem (20th-21st century) No wonder Eliot liked the 'Metaphysicals'...

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