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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mr. Tilman After He Had Taken Orders</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOU, whose diviner soul hath caused thee now <br>To put thy hand unto the holy plough, <br>Making lay-scornings of the ministry <br>Not an impediment, but victory ; <br>What bring'st thou home with thee ? how is thy mind <br>Affected since the vintage ? Dost thou find <br>New thoughts and stirrings in thee ? and, as steel <br>Touch'd with a loadstone, dost new motions feel ? <br>Or, as a ship after much pain and care <br>For iron and cloth brings home rich Indian ware, <br>Hast thou thus traffick'd, but with far more gain <br>Of noble goods, and with less time and pain ? <br>Thou art the same materials, as before, <br>Only the stamp is changèd, but no more. <br>And as new crowned kings alter the face, <br>But not the money's substance, so hath grace <br>Changed only God's old image by creation, <br>To Christ's new stamp, at this thy coronation ; <br>Or, as we paint angels with wings, because <br>They bear God's message and proclaim His laws, <br>Since thou must do the like and so must move, <br>Art thou new feather'd with celestial love ? <br>Dear, tell me where thy purchase lies, and show <br>What thy advantage is above, below. <br>But if thy gainings do surmount expression, <br>Why doth the foolish world scorn that profession, <br>Whose joys pass speech ? Why do they think unfit <br>That gentry should join families with it ? <br>As if their day were only to be spent <br>In dressing, mistressing and compliment. <br>Alas ! poor joys, but poorer men, whose trust <br>Seems richly placèd in sublimèd dust, <br>—For such are clothes and beauty, which though gay, <br>Are, at the best, but of sublimèd clay— <br>Let then the world thy calling disrespect, <br>But go thou on, and pity their neglect. <br>What function is so noble, as to be <br>Ambassador to God, and destiny ? <br>To open life ? to give kingdoms to more <br>Than kings give dignities? to keep heaven's door ? <br>Mary's prerogative was to bear Christ, so <br>'Tis preachers' to convey Him, for they do, <br>As angels out of clouds, from pulpits speak ; <br>And bless the poor beneath, the lame, the weak. <br>If then th' astronomers, whereas they spy <br>A new-found star, their optics magnify, <br>How brave are those, who with their engine can <br>Bring man to heaven, and heaven again to man ? <br>These are thy titles and pre-eminences, <br>In whom must meet God's graces, men's offences ; <br>And so the heavens which beget all things here, <br>And the earth, our mother, which these things doth bear ; <br>Both these in thee, are in thy calling knit <br>And make thee now a blest hermaphrodite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q>
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To put thy hand unto the holy plough, 
Making lay-scornings of the ministry 
Not an impediment, but victory ; 
What bring'st thou home with thee ? how is thy mind 
Affected since the vintage ? Dost th..."></div>
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