Monday, February 27, 2012
Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633

The God of love my shepherd is,

And he that doth me feed:

While he is mine and I am his,

What can I want or need?

 

He leads me to the tender grasse,

Where I both feed and rest;

Then to the streams that gently passe:

In both I have the best.

 

Or if I stray, he doth convert,

And bring my minde in frame:

And all this not for my desert,

But for his holy name.

 

Yea, in deaths shadie black abode

Well may I walk, not fear:

For thou art with me, and thy rod

To guide, thy staffe to bear.

 

Nay, thou dost make me sit and dine,

Ev’n in my enemies’ sight;

My head with oyl, my cup with wine

Runnes over day and night.

 

Surely thy sweet and wondrous love

Shall measure all my dayes;

And as it never shall remove,

So neither shall my praise.

... George Herbert (1593-1633), The Poetical Works of George Herbert, New York: D. Appleton, 1857, p. 219-220 (see the book; see also Phil. 4:19; Ps. 23; 2 Cor. 5:1; Eph. 3:20-21; more at Cup, Day, Enemy, Gentleness, God, Guidance, Leader, Love, Praise)

 
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