TO KEEP A TRUE LENT.
Is this a fast, to keep the larder clean and lean From fat of veals and sheep? Is it, to fast an hour, or ragg’d to go. Or show a down-cast look and sour? Is it to quit the dish of flesh, yet still To fill the platter high with fish? No. ’tls a fast, to dole thy sheaf ot wheat. And meat, unto the hungry soul Tt is to fast from strife, from old debate And hate; to circumcise thy life. To show’ a heart grief rent; to starve * thy sin, Not bin. nnd that’s to keep thy Lent - Robert Herrick <lf>9t-1674).
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White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 344, 18 February 1924, Page 9
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108TO KEEP A TRUE LENT. White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 344, 18 February 1924, Page 9
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