Awake, sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns ;
Take up thine eyes, which feed on earth ;
Unfold thy forehead, gathered into frowns ;
Thy Saviour comes, and with Him mirth :
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'Arise sad soul'... And give strife blow... Kindle thou the fire of love.... By God that no being can shove.
To stop my struggle with painful reality during the dark hours, I switched on Something Understood at 6 am and listened to Rabbi Shoshana Boyd on Fragility. It felt as if she was speaking to me. When she ended, I thought of George Herbert, his fierce struggle expressed in 'The Collar 'I struck the Board and....