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The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert

For the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and mss. and much enlarged with I. Hitherto unprinted and inedited poems and prose from the Williams mss. etc. II. Translation of the whole of the Latin and Greek verse and Latin prose. III. Memorial-introduction, essay on life and writings, and notes and illustrations. IV. In quarto, portraits on steel, and other specially-prepared illustrations and facsimiles. Edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart ... In three volumes [in The Fuller Worthies' Library]

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V. THE KNELL.
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V. THE KNELL.

The Bell doth tolle:
Lord, help Thy servant, whose perplexèd Soule
Doth wishly look
On either hand,

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And sometimes offers, sometimes makes a stand,
Strugling on th'hook.
Now is the season,
Now ye great combat of our flesh and reason:
O help, my God;
See, they break in,
Disbanded humours, sorrows, troops of Sinn,
Each wth his rodd.
Lord, make Thy Blood
Convert and colour all the other flood
And streams of grief,
That they may bee
Julips and cordials when we call on Thee
For some relief.