By Day and Time |
Some great estates provide, but do not breed | |
A mast'ring mind; so both are lost thereby: | |
Or els1 they breed them tender, make them need | |
All that they leave: this is flat povertie. | |
For he, that needs five thousand pound to live | |
Is full as poor as he that needs but five. |
George Herbert, The Temple, "The Church-porch," Stanza 18 [for discussion].
These poems by George Herbert, the Seventeenth Century
divine, instruct us to a better, more spiritual life. These are the first
part of his book The Temple. Collectively they are called "The Church-porch" and intended as ethical and moral instructions preparing us for our
spiritual encounters with the Divine in "The Church."
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