{"id":23652,"date":"2016-03-27T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=23652"},"modified":"2016-03-25T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:41:41","slug":"can-there-be-any-day-but-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/03\/can-there-be-any-day-but-this\/","title":{"rendered":"“Can there be any day but this?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>\n\n\n

\nEaster<\/strong><\/center>
by George Herbert<\/strong><\/center>
<\/center>
<\/center>\u00a0 \u00a0 RISE heart ; \u00a0thy Lord is risen. \u00a0Sing his praise
\nWithout delayes,
\nWho takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
\nWith him mayst rise :<\/b>
\nThat, as his death calcined thee to dust,
\nHis life may make thee gold, and much more just.Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
\nWith all thy art.
\nThe crosse taught all wood to resound his name
\nWho bore the same.
\nHis stretched sinews taught all strings, what key
\nIs best to celebrate this most high day.\n

Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song
\nPleasant and long :<\/b>
\nOr since all music is but three parts vied,
\nAnd multiplied ;<\/b>
\nO let thy blessed Spirit bear a part,
\nAnd make up our defects with his sweet art.<\/p>\n

I got me flowers to straw thy way ;<\/b>
\nI got me boughs off many a tree :<\/b><\/p>\n

\nBut thou wast up by break of day,
\nAnd brought\u2019st thy sweets along with thee.
\n\"Engraving\"
\nThe Sunne arising in the East,
\nThough he give light, and th\u2019 East perfume ;<\/b>
\nIf they should offer to contest
\nWith thy arising, they presume.\n

Can there be any day but this,
\nThough many sunnes to shine endeavour ?
\nWe count three hundred, but we misse :<\/b>
\nThere is but one, and that one ever.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: George Herbert. Easter.<\/a><\/em>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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