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To: wagglebee

Seeing the Passion in a movie may be more difficult than reading about it, but there was nothing unusually violent or bloody about Mel Gibson's treatment.

Take this brilliant poem of George Herbert's, for instance:

THE AGONY

Philosophers have measured mountains,
Fathom'd the depths of seas, of states, and kings,
Walk'd with a staff to heaven, and traced fountains
But there are two vast, spacious things,
The which to measure it doth more behove:
Yet few there are that sound them; Sin and Love.

Who would know Sin, let him repair
Unto Mount Olivet; there shall he see
A man, so wrung with pains, that all his hair,
His skin, his garments, bloody be.
Sin is that Press and Vice, which forceth pain
To hunt his cruel food through every vein.

Who knows not Love, let him assay,
And taste that juice, which on the cross a pike
Did set again abroach; then let him say
If ever he did taste the like.
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.


by George Herbert 1593-1633


24 posted on 03/07/2005 6:42:42 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Ah, I love Herbert. Thank you for posting this!


29 posted on 03/07/2005 6:54:12 PM PST by walden
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