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 heaven and earth; Engine against the 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, 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.
George Herbert Anna Sutcliffe included this poem in her Conference poetry presentation With Great Pleasure.
Poetry by George Herbert; included in Anna Sutcliffe's Conference poetry presentation.