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To Keep a True Lent
To Keep a True Lent
Is this a Fast, to keep
The larder lean?
And clean
From fat of veals and sheep?
Is it to quit the dish
Of flesh, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish?
Is it to fast an hour,
Or ragg’d to go,
Or show
A down-cast look and sour?
No: ‘tis a Fast to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat
And meat
Unto the hungry soul.
It is to fast from strife
And old debate,
And hate;
To circumcise thy life.
To show a heart grief–rent;
To starve thy sin,
Not bin;
And that’s to keep thy Lent.
~ Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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What a beautiful and meaningful poem.
Thank you for sharing it.
Bill
That is one of my favorite poems! I read it often during Lent. “To starve thy sin” reminds me so succintly of what the season if all about.
Bill and KM, I just discovered the poem last week when a friend of mine passed it around saying it was his favorite Lent poem.