The Jews
Poor nation, whose sweet sap, and juice
Our scions have purloin’d, and left you dry:
Whose streams we got by the Apostles’ sluice,
And use in baptism, while ye pine and die:
Who by not keeping once, became a debtor;
And now by keeping lose the letter:
Oh that my prayers! mine, alas!
O that some Angel might a trumpet sound;
At which the Church falling upon her face
Should cry so loud, until the trump were drown’d,
And by that cry of her dear Lord obtain,
That your sweet sap might come again!
- George Herbert
