<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396293" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Affliction (III)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My heart did heave, and there came forth, 'O God'! <br>By that I knew that thou wast in the grief, <br>To guide and govern it to my relief, <br>Making a sceptre of the rod: <br>Hadst thou not had thy part, <br>Sure the unruly sigh had broke my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But since thy breath gave me both life and shape, <br>Thou know'st my tallies; and when there's assigned <br>So much breath to a sigh, what's then behind? <br>Or if some years with it escape, <br>The sigh then only is<br>A gale to bring me sooner to my bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy life on earth was grief, and thou art still<br>Constant unto it, making it to be<br>A point of honour now to grieve in me, <br>And in thy members suffer ill.<br>They who lament one cross, <br>Thou dying daily, praise thee to thy loss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Herbert">George Herbert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396293" data-title="Affliction (III) de George Herbert" data-description="My heart did heave, and there came forth, 'O God'! By that I knew that thou wast in the grief, To guide and govern it to my relief, Making a sceptre of the rod: Hadst thou not had thy part, Sure the unruly sigh had broke my heart. But since ..."></div> </div> </div>

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