# Quote — George Herbert, The Temple

> Prayer the church’s banquet, angel’s age,
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> God’s breath in man returning to his birth,
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> The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
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> The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth
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> Engine against th’ Almighty, sinner’s tow’r,
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> Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
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> The six-days world transposing in an hour,
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> A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
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> Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
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> Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
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> Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
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> The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
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> Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood,
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> The land of spices; something understood.

- Author: [George Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert.md)
- Book: [The Temple](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple.md)
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## More from this book

> Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
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> Could have recovered greenness?

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> Whereas if the heart be moved,
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> Although the verse be somewhat scant,
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> God doth supply the want.

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> Thy rope of sands,
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> Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee
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> Good cable, to enforce and draw,
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> And be thy law,
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> While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/thy-rope-of-sands.md)