Love Tried to Welcome Me

[Anveeroy 56,968]

These are my hands
But what can they give me?
These are my eyes
But they cannot see

These are my arms but they
Don't know tenderness
And I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness

And loneliness has never been
A stranger to me but

Love tried to welcome me
But my soul drew back
Guilty of lust and sin
Love tried to take me in

 

[fraann 932]

amazing album period

[Tobcho 342]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44367/love-iii 

Lyrics based on the 17th C poem

 

Love (III) 

BY GEORGE HERBERT

 

Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back

                              Guilty of dust and sin.

But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack

                             From my first entrance in,

Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,

                             If I lacked any thing.

 

A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:

                             Love said, You shall be he.

I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,

                             I cannot look on thee.

Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,

                             Who made the eyes but I?

 

Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame

                             Go where it doth deserve.

And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?

                             My dear, then I will serve.

You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:

                             So I did sit and eat.

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But Madge swapped dust for lust