{"id":5053,"date":"2013-12-12T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:33:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:33:34","slug":"immensity-cloistered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/immensity-cloistered\/","title":{"rendered":"Immensity Cloistered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,<\/em>
\nNow leaves His well-belov\u2019d imprisonment,
\nThere He hath made Himself to His intent
\nWeak enough, now into the world to come;
\nBut O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room?
\nYet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient,
\nStars and wise men will travel to prevent
\nThe effect of Herod\u2019s jealous general doom.
\nSeest thou, my soul, with thy faith\u2019s eyes, how He
\nWhich fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?
\nWas not His pity towards thee wondrous high,
\nThat would have need to be pitied by thee?
\nKiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,
\nWith His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013John Donne<\/strong>,\u00a0Nativity<\/em>\u00a0from\u00a0La Corona<\/em>\u00a0(1610)<\/p>\n

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There’s more info on this poem:
\n—to see the entire larger poem <\/a>of which this is an excerpt (the italicized first and last lines give us a hint)
\n— brief commentary\u00a0at Harper’s\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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