George Herbert PRAYER. (I)          PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,         Gods 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, sinner's towre,         Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,         The six daies world-transposing in an houre, A kinde 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 stars heard, the souls bloud,         The land of spices, something understood. Source: Herbert, George. The Poetical Works of George Herbert. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857. 61-62. to Works of George Herbert Site ©1996-2001 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinen on July 7, 2001.