LOVE--JOY

As on a window late I cast mine eye,

I saw a vine drop grapes with J and C

Anneal'd on every bunch. One standing by

Ask'd what it meant. I (who am never loth

To spend my judgment) said it seem'd to me

To be the body and the letters both

Of Joy and Charity. Sir, you have not miss'd,

The man replied; it figures JESUS CHRIST.

--George Herbert.

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