To God [With Golden Censers, And With Incense, Here]

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Title:     To God [With Golden Censers, And With Incense, Here]
Author: (Poet) Robert Herrick [More Titles by Herrick]

With golden censers, and with incense, here
Before Thy virgin-altar I appear,
To pay Thee that I owe, since what I see
In, or without, all, all belongs to Thee.
Where shall I now begin to make, for one
Least loan of Thine, half restitution?
Alas! I cannot pay a jot; therefore
I'll kiss the tally, and confess the score.
Ten thousand talents lent me, Thou dost write;
'Tis true, my God, but I can't pay one mite.

_Tally_, the record of his score or debt.

[The end]
(Poet) Robert Herrick's poem: To God [with Golden Censers, And With Incense, Here]

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