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Название: Selected Works

Автор: George Herbert

Издательство: Ingram

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СКАЧАТЬ much breath to a sigh, what’s then behinde?

      Or if some yeares with it escape,

      The sigh then onely is

      A gale to bring me sooner to my blisse.

      Thy life on earth was grief, and thou art still

      Constant unto it, making it to be

      A point of honour, now to grieve in me,

      And in thy members suffer ill.

      They who lament one crosse,

      Thou dying dayly, praise thee to thy losse.

      49. THE STARRE.

      BRIGHT spark, shot from a brighter place,

      Where beams surround my Saviour’s face,

      Canst thou be any where

      So well as there?

      Yet, if thou wilt from thence depart,

      Take a bad lodging in my heart;

      For thou canst make a debter,

      And make it better.

      First with thy fire-work burn to dust

      Folly, and worse than folly, lust:

      Then with thy light refine,

      And make it shine.

      So disengag’d from sinne and sicknesse,

      Touch it with thy celestiall quicknesse

      That it may hang and move

      After thy love.

      Then with our trinitie of light,

      Motion, and heat, let’s take our flight

      Unto the place where thou

      Before didst bow.

      Get me a standing there, and place

      Among the beams, which crown the face

      Of him, who dy’d to part

      Sinne and my heart:

      That so among the rest I may

      Glitter, and curle, and winde as they:

      That winding is their fashion

      Of adoration.

      Sure thou wilt joy, by gaining me

      To flie home like a laden bee

      Unto that hive of beams

      And garland-streams.

      50. SUNDAY.

      O DAY most calm, most bright,

      The fruit of this, the next world’s bud,

      Th’ indorsement of supreme delight,

      Writ by a friend, and with his bloud;

      The couch of time; cares balm and bay;

      The week were dark, but for thy light:

      Thy torch doth show the way.

      The other dayes and thou

      Make up one man; whose face thou art,

      Knocking at heaven with thy brow:

      The worky-daies are the back-part;

      The burden of the week lies there,

      Making the whole to stoup and bow,

      Till thy release appeare.

      Man had straight forward gone

      To endlesse death; but thou dost pull

      And turn us round to look on one,

      Whom, if we were not very dull,

      We could not choose but look on still;

      Since there is no place so alone

      The which he doth not fill.

      Sundaies the pillars are,

      On which heav’n’s palace arched lies:

      The other dayes fill up the spare

      And hollow room with vanities.

      They are the fruitfull beds and borders

      In God’s rich garden: that is bare

      Which parts their ranks and orders.

      The Sundaies of man’s life,

      Thredded together on Time’s string,

      Make bracelets to adorn the wife

      Of the eternall glorious King.

      On Sunday heaven’s gate stands ope;

      Blessings are plentifull and rife,

      More plentifull then hope.

      This day my Saviour rose,

      And did inclose this light for his:

      That, as each beast his manger knows,

      Man might not of his fodder misse.

      Christ hath took in this piece of ground,

      And made a garden there for those

      Who want herbs for their wound.

      The rest of our Creation

      Our great Redeemer did remove

      With the same shake, which at his passion

      Did th’ earth and all things with it move.

      As Samson bore the doores away,

      Christ’s hands, though nailed, wrought our salvation,

      And did unhinge that day.

      The brightnesse СКАЧАТЬ