Wednesday, February 09, 2005
On Observing a Holy Lent
Is this a Fast, to keep
The Larder lean?
And clean
From fat of Veals and Sheep?
Is it to quit the dish
Of Flesh, yet still
To Fill
The platter high with Fish?
Is it to fast an hour
Or rag'd to go,
Or show
A downcast look, and sour?
No; 'tis a Fast, to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat
And meat
Unto the hungry soul.
It is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate;
To circumcise thy life.
To show a heart grief-rent;
To starve thy sin,
Not Bin;
And that's to keep thy Lent.
~Robert Herrick
-R
The Larder lean?
And clean
From fat of Veals and Sheep?
Is it to quit the dish
Of Flesh, yet still
To Fill
The platter high with Fish?
Is it to fast an hour
Or rag'd to go,
Or show
A downcast look, and sour?
No; 'tis a Fast, to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat
And meat
Unto the hungry soul.
It is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate;
To circumcise thy life.
To show a heart grief-rent;
To starve thy sin,
Not Bin;
And that's to keep thy Lent.
~Robert Herrick
-R
1 Comments:
a helpful reminder. thanks!
