How we cite our quotes: (Verse)
Quote #4
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (line 4)
A rod and a staff are basically the same thing; they're used to guide sheep when they stray off the path and away from the flock. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins picked up on this image in his poem "God's Grandeur," where he writes, "Why do men then now not reck his rod?"