For your Good Friday contemplation, I offer you a long poem from George Herbert, the 17th century Englishman whom I consider one of the greatest Christian poets. This is "The Sacrifice." It is from the point of view of Christ on the Cross. It plays with the paradoxes of human sin and Christ's grace, His sovereignty and His suffering, all to redeem us. (Do you know Samuel Crossman's hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown"? Note how the hymnwriter is drawing from Herbert's poem.)
EASTER. RISE heart ; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more just.
George Herbert: Easter Wings Lord, Who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With Thee O let me rise, As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories: Then shall the
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