The Holy Scriptures I

George Herbert * Track #31 On The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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The Holy Scriptures I by George Herbert

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In Herbert’s original volume, The Temple, this sonnet in praise of the beauties of the Holy Scriptures is followed by another sonnet of the same form on the same theme, marked merely with the numeral II, but generally known as “The Holy Scriptures II”.

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The Holy Scriptures I Annotated

Oh Book! infinite sweetness! let my heart
Suck ev'ry letter, and a honey gain,
Precious for any grief in any part;
To clear the breast, to mollify all pain.
Thou art all health, health thriving, till it make
A full eternity: thou art a mass
Of strange delights, where we may wish and take.
Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass,
That mends the looker's eyes: this is the well
That washes what it shows. Who can endear
Thy praise too much? thou art heav'n's Lidger here,
Working against the states of death and hell.
Thou art joy's handsel: heav'n lies flat in thee,
Subject to ev'ry mounter's bended knee.

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