Poetry for Ordinary Time

This week's selection is from Anglican priest and poet, George Herbert (1593 - 1633)...

 Our Life is Hid with Christ in God*  (Colossians III: 3)                    

My words and thoughts do both expresse this notion,
That Life hath with the sun a double motion,
The first Is straight, and our diurnall friend;
The other Him, and doth obliquely bend.
One life is wrapt In flesh, and tends to earth;
The other winds towards Him, Whose happie birth
Taught me to live here so That still one eye
Should aim and shoot at that which Is on high;
Quitting with daily labour all My pleasure,
To gain at harvest an eternall Treasure.

*From "The Temple" in The Works of George Herbert, The Wordsworth Poetry Library, Wordsworth Editions Ltd., Hertfordshire, England, 1994