 | The poetical works of Robert Herrick |  |
To keep a true Lent.
1
Is this a Fast, to keepThe Larder leane?
And cleane
From fat of Veales, and Sheep?
2
Is it to quit the dishOf Flesh, yet still
To fill
The platter high with Fish?
3
Is it to fast an houre,Or rag'd to go,
Or show
A down-cast look, and sowre?
4
No: 'tis a Fast, to doleThy sheaf of wheat,
And meat,
Unto the hungry Soule.
5
It is to fast from strife,From old debate,
And hate;
To circumcise thy life.
6
To shew a heart grief-rent;To sterve thy sin,
Not Bin
And that's to keep thy Lent.
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