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VirginiaHuguenot · #10 (**permalink**) 10-19-2006, 09:29 AM

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Originally posted by Philip A
I've been reading Herbert over the last few weeks, and thoroughly enjoying his writings. After reading last night, I thought to myself "I ought to post a bit about it on the PB". Then I thought "I wonder if there's a thread on Herbert already" and finally "I bet Andrew has one."

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So anyhoo, I read this last night:

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The Sinner

LORD, how I am all ague, when I seek
What I have treasur’d in my memorie!
Since, if my soul make even with the week,
Each seventh note by right is due to thee.
I finde there quarries of pil’d vanities,
But shreds of holinesse, that dare not venture
To shew their face, since crosse to thy decrees :
There the circumference earth is, heav’n the centre.
In so much dregs the quintessence is small :
The spirit and good extract of my heart
Comes to about the many hundredth part.
Yet, Lord, restore thine image, heare my call :
And though my hard heart scarce to thee can grone,
Remember that thou once didst write in stone.

Now that's poetry!