Friday, February 27, 2009
Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633

It’s true we cannot reach Christ’s forti’th day

Yet to go part of that religious way

Is better than to rest:

We cannot reach our Savior’s purity;

Yet we are bid, ‘Be holy ev’n as He’:

In both let’s do our best.

 

Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone

Is much more sure to meet with Him than one

That traveleth by-ways;

Perhaps my God, though He be far before,

May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,

May strengthen my decays.

 

Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast

By starving sin, and taking such repast

As may our faults control;

That ev’ry man may revel at his door,

Not in his parlor; banqueting the poor,

And among those, his soul.

... George Herbert (1593-1633), The Poetical Works of George Herbert, New York: D. Appleton, 1857, p. 109-110 (see the book; see also Mark 1:12-13; Isa. 35:8; 1 Pet. 1:15,16; Heb. 9:8-14; more at Christ, Fasting, Holiness, Instruction, Purity, Repentance, Sin, Soul)

 
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