The Invitation

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Come ye hither all, whose taste
  Is your waste;
Save your cost, and mend your fare.
God is here prepar'd and drest,
  And the feast,
God, in whom all dainties are.

Come ye hither all, whom wine
  Doth define,
Naming you not to your good:
Weep what ye have drunk amisse,
  And drink this,
Which before ye drink is bloud.

Come ye hither all, whom pain
  Doth arraigne,
Bringing all your sinnes to sight:
Taste and fear not: God is here
  In this cheer,
And on sinne doth cast the fright.

Come ye hither all, whom joy
  Doth destroy,
While ye graze without your bounds:
Here is joy that drowneth quite
  Your delight,
As a floud the lower grounds.

Come ye hither all, whose love
  Is your dove,
And exalts you to the skie:
Here is love, which, having breath
  Ev'n in death,
After death can never die.

Lord I have invited all,
  And I shall
Still invite, still call to thee:
For it seems but just and right
  In my sight,
Where is all, there all should be.

© George Herbert