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George Herbert - The InvitationGeorge Herbert - The Invitation
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Come ye hither all, whose taste                         Is your waste; Save your cost, and mend your fare. God is here prepar`d and drest,                         And the feast, God, in whom all dainties are. Come ye hither all, whom wine                         Doth define, Naming you not to your good: Weep what ye have drunk amisse,                         And drink this, Which before ye drink is bloud. Come ye hither all, whom pain                         Doth arraigne, Bringing all your sinnes to sight: Taste and fear not: God is here                         In this cheer, And on sinne doth cast the fright. Come ye hither all, whom joy                         Doth destroy, While ye graze without your bounds: Here is joy that drowneth quite                         Your delight, As a floud the lower grounds. Come ye hither all, whose love                         Is your dove, And exalts you to the skie: Here is love, which, having breath                         Ev`n in death, After death can never die. Lord I have invited all,                         And I shall Still invite, still call to thee: For it seems but just and right                         In my sight, Where is all, there all should be.
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