Herbert Joseph Thompson

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    “I got me flowers to straw thy way;
    I got me boughs off many a tree;
    But thou wast up by break of day,
    And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
    I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
    I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
    Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears
    I hid from Him, and under running laughter.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)