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Prayer (I)

Prayer the Church's banquet, angels' age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul i .........
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George Herbert

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Gabrielle A. Macdonald (12/19/2006 8:22:00 AM)
One of the best loved of all H's poems: a list of analogies for prayer - and that last line of the couplet: a) in my memory forever; and b) could be a line from a much more modern poem (20th-21st century)

No wonder Eliot liked the 'Metaphysicals'...

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11/23/2008 8:23:29 AM. You Are Here: Prayer (I) by George Herbert