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Album The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

JESU by George Herbert

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George Herbert
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In this delightful and serious meditation on the Sacred Name of Jesus, Herbert explains how the suffering of the heart can lead him to a new understanding of the significance of the name that has long been planted there. The presence of Jesu in the heart does not lose its coherence when the heart is...

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JESU Annotated

JESU is in my heart, his sacred name
Is deeply carved there: but th’ other week
A great affliction broke the little frame,
Ev’n all to pieces: which I went to seek:
And first I found the corner, where was J,
After, where ES, and next where U was graved.
When I had got these parcels, instantly
I sat me down to spell them, and perceived
That to my broken heart he was I ease you,
And to the whole is J E S U.

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