Category: Traherne

  • ‘The Salutation’ by Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)

    These little limbs,These eyes and hands which here I find,These rosy cheeks wherewith my life begins, Where have ye been? Behind 4What curtain were ye from me hid so long?Where was, in what abyss, my speaking tongue When silent I So many thousand, thousand yearsBeneath the dust did in a Chaos lie, 9 How could…