279       Prayer

Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,

   Gods breath in man returning to his birth,

   The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth;

5       Engine against th’ Almightie, sinners towre,

   Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,

   The six-daies world-transposing in an houre,

  A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;

   Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,

10             Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,

    Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,

   The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,

      Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,

        The land of spices; something understood.