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Here is a famous poem which gives us some penetrating thoughts about Prayer. It is by that great Elizabethan poet, mystic and priest: George Herbert.   He calls it simply: ‘Prayer’.

Prayer

 Prayer the Churches 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;

Engine against th’Almightie, sinners towre,

Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,

The six-dais world transposing in an houre,

A kind of tune, which all things heare and fear;

Softnesse and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,

Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,

Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,

The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,

Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,

The land of spices; something understood.

 

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