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Day 41: Monday
The Son
| Let foreign nations of their language boast,
What fine variety each tongue affords: I like our language, as our men and coast: Who cannot dress it well, want wit, not words. How neatly do we give one only name To parents’ issue and the sun’s bright star! A son is light and fruit; a fruitful flame Chasing the father’s dimness, carried far From the first man in th’ East, to fresh and new Western discov’ries of posterity. So in one word our Lord’s humility We turn upon him in a sense most true: For what Christ once in humbleness began, We him in glory call, The Son of Man. |
| Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:
Such a Way, as gives us breath: Such a Truth, as ends all strife: Such a Life, as killeth death.
Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength: Such a Light, as shows a feast: Such a Feast, as mends in length: Such a Strength, as makes his guest.
Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart: Such a Joy, as none can move: Such a Love, as none can part: Such a Heart, as joys in love. |
1 Ralph Vaughan Williams composed 5 Mystical Songs using George Herbert's poems: 1. Easter ["Easter" section A], 2. I Got Me Flowers ["Easter" section B], 3. Love Bade Me Welcome [Love (III)], 4. The Call, and 5. Antiphon ["Antiphon (I)"]. [If you can hear the music you can Return to sing the words.]