Prayer the Church's banquet, angels' age, <br />God's breath in man returning to his birth, <br />The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, <br />The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth; <br /> <br />Engine against th'Almighty, sinner's tower, <br />Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, <br />The six-days' world transposing in an hour, <br />A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear; <br /> <br />Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss, <br />Exalted manna, gladness of the best, <br />Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, <br />The Milky Way, the bird of Paradise, <br /> <br />Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, <br />The land of spices; something understood.<br /><br />George Herbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prayer-i/
