The Holdfast

George Herbert * Track #115 On The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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The Holdfast by George Herbert

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In this sonnet the first speaker desires to be religious and to find a “holdfast,” a point that holds firm, but a religious interlocutor keeps him from finding this fixed point in any internal activity of his own: he wants to observe the commands, but that cannot be done; he wants to trust, but that...

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I threatned to observe the strict decree
Of my deare God with all my power and might:
But I was told by one, It could not be;
Yet I might trust in God to be my light.
Then will I trust, said I, in him alone.
Nay, ev'n to trust in him, was also his:
We must confesse, that nothing is our own.
Then I confesse that he my succour is:
But to have nought is ours, not to confesse
That we have nought. I stood amaz'd at this,
Much troubled, till I heard a friend expresse,
That all things were more ours by being his:
What Adam had, and forfeited for all,
Christ keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall.

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