George Herbert PRAYER. (I)          PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,         Gods breath in man returning to his birth,         The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav�n and earth ; Engine against th� Almightie, sinner's towre,         Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,         The six daies world-transposing in an houre, A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear ; Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,         Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,         Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest, The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,         Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,         The land of spices, something understood. Source: Herbert, George. The Poetical Works of George Herbert. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857. 61-62. to Works of George Herbert Site ©1996-2001 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinen on July 7, 2001.