Prayer (I)
| | | 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; | | 5 | | Engine against th’ Almighty, sinners’ tower, | | | | Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, | | | | The six-days’ world transposing in an hour, | | | | A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear; | | | | Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss, | | 10 | | Exalted manna, gladness of the best, | | | | Heaven in ordinary, man well dressed, | | | | The milky way, the bird of Paradise, | | | | Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood, | | | | The land of spices; something understood. | | | | | | | | |
Contributed by Robert Clark.
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