“I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Letter 225 (to his parishioners) Aberdeen 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)
“What the eye delights in, no longer dictates
My greed to enjoy”
"Experience"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: What the eye delights in, no longer dictates
My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off
deer.
It leaves those figures that distantly play
On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.
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