<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397198" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Barnfloor and Winepress</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? <br> 2 Kings VI: 27</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou that on sin's wages starvest, <br>Behold we have the joy in harvest: <br>For us was gather'd the first fruits, <br>For us was lifted from the roots, <br>Sheaved in cruel bands, bruised sore, <br>Scourged upon the threshing-floor; <br>Where the upper mill-stone roof'd His head, <br>At morn we found the heavenly Bread, <br>And, on a thousand altars laid, <br>Christ our Sacrifice is made! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou whose dry plot for moisture gapes, <br>We shout with them that tread the grapes: <br>For us the Vine was fenced with thorn, <br>Five ways the precious branches torn; <br>Terrible fruit was on the tree<br>In the acre of Gethsemane; <br>For us by Calvary's distress<br>The wine was racked from the press; <br>Now in our altar-vessels stored<br>Is the sweet Vintage of our Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Joseph's garden they threw by <br>The riv'n Vine, leafless, lifeless, dry: <br>On Easter morn the Tree was forth, <br>In forty days reach'd heaven from earth; <br>Soon the whole world is overspread; <br>Ye weary, come into the shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The field where He has planted us<br>Shall shake her fruit as Libanus, <br>When He has sheaved us in His sheaf, <br>When He has made us bear his leaf. - <br>We scarcely call that banquet food, <br>But even our Saviour's and our blood, <br>We are so grafted on His wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gerard+Manley+Hopkins">Gerard Manley Hopkins</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=397198" data-title="Barnfloor and Winepress de Gerard Manley Hopkins" data-description="And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? 2 Kings VI: 27 Thou that on sin's wages starvest, Behold we have the joy in harvest: For us was gather'd the first fruits, Fo..."></div> </div> </div>

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