Logos Virtual Library: George Herbert: The Temple: The Church: The Twenty-third Psalme

George Herbert

The Temple

The Church
The Twenty-third Psalme

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George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Temple

The Twenty-third Psalme

The God of love my shepherd is,

And he that doth me feed:
While he is mine, and I am his,

What can I want or need?

He leads me to the tender grasse,

Where I both feed and rest;
Then to the streams that gently passe;

In both I have the best.

Or if I stray, he doth convert

And bring my minde in frame:
And all this not for my desert,

But for his holy name.

Yea, in deaths shadie black abode

Well may I walk, not fear:
For thou art with me; and thy rod

To guide, thy staffe to bear.

Nay, thou dost make me sit and dine,

Ev’n in my enemies sight:
My head with oyl, my cup with wine

Runnes over day and night.

Surely thy sweet and wondrous love

Shall measure all my dayes;
And as it never shall remove,

So neither shall my praise.