spring is coming

From  The Murmuring Cottage

It is in the air today: 63 degrees.
Front door is open to let in the light. 
The birds are chirping. 
They know. 

I am musing upon the 27 images in this prayer:

Prayer (I)

BY GEORGE HERBERT

Prayer the church's banquet, angel's age,

         God's breath in man returning to his birth,

         The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth

Engine against th' Almighty, sinner's tow'r,

         Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,

         The six-days world transposing in an hour,

A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;

Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,

         Exalted manna, gladness of the best,

         Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

The milky way, the bird of Paradise,

         Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,

         The land of spices; something understood.

Thank you Malcolm Guite.