# “Prayer the church’s banquet” by George Herbert

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**Prayer (I)**

Prayer the church’s banquet, angel’s age,
 God’s 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’ Almighty, sinner’s tow’r, Reversed thunder, 
Christ-side-piercing spear, The six-days world transposing in an hour, A kind of
tune, which all things hear and fear; Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and
bliss, Exalted manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, 
The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s
blood, The land of spices; something understood.

–George Herbert, from ‘Prayer (I)” in [_Herbert: Poems (Everyman Library)_ ](http://amzn.to/2zaA1jR)(
New York: Knopf, 2004), 37.

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