| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
| |
| George Herbert |
| |
| 88. The Windows |
| |
| LORD, how can man preach thy eternall word? | |
| He is a brittle crazie glasse: | |
| Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford | |
| This glorious and transcendent place, | |
| To be a window, through thy grace. | 5 |
| |
| But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie, | |
| Making thy life to shine within | |
| The holy Preachers; then the light and glorie | |
| More rev'rend grows, & more doth win; | |
| Which else shows watrish, bleak, & thin. | 10 |
| |
| Doctrine and life, colours and light, in one | |
| When they combine and mingle, bring | |
| A strong regard and aw: but speech alone | |
| Doth vanish like a flaring thing, | |
| And in the eare, not conscience ring. | 15 |
| |
|
|
