So I went To fetch a sacrifice out of my fold, Thinking with that, which I did thus present, To warm his love, which I did fear grew cold. After my heart was well, And clean and fair, as I one even-tide (I sigh to tell) Walkt by my self abroad, I saw a large And spacious fornace flaming, and thereon A boyling caldron, round about those verge Was in great letters set AFFLICTION. I did and do commit Many a fault more then my lease will bear Yet still askt pardon, and was not denid. The servant instantly Quitting the fruit, seizd on my heart alone, And threw it in a font, wherein did fall A stream of bloud, which issud from the side Of a great rock: I well remember all, And have good cause: there it was dipt and dyd, And washt, and wrung: the very wringing yet Enforceth tears. To him I brought a dish of fruit one day, And in the middle placd my heart, But he (I sigh to say) Lookt on a servant, who did know his eye Better then you know me, or (which is one) Then I my self. A Lord I had, And have, of whom some grounds, which may improve, I hold for two lives, and both lives in me. George Herbert: Love Unknown (1633) from The Temple (1633), by George Herbert:ĭEare Friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad: And in my faintings I presume your loue Will more complie then help.
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