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“Immortal Heat” by George Herbert 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (3 Apr 1593 – 1 Mar 1633)
Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame
Attract the lesser to it: let those fires
Which shall consume the world, first make it tame,
And kindle in our hearts such true desires,
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As may consume our lusts, and make thee way.
Then shall our hearts pant thee; then shall our brain
All her invention on thine Altar lay,
And there in hymnes send back thy fire again:
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Our eies shall see thee, which before saw dust;
Dust blown by wit, till that they both were blinde:
Thou shalt recover all thy goods in kinde,
Who wert disseized by usurping lust:
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All knees shall bow to thee; all wits shall rise,
And praise him who did make and mend our eies.