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At the round world’s imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels; and arise, arise, From death you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All whom the flood did, and fire shall o’erthrow, All whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slain; and you whose eyes Shall behold God and never taste death’s woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and men mourn a space; For if above all these my sins abound, ’Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace, When we are there; here, on this lowly ground Teach me how to repent; for that’s as good As if Thou hadst sealed my pardon with Thy blood.
At the round world’s imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels; and arise, arise, From death you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All whom the flood did, and fire shall o’erthrow, All whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slain; and you whose eyes Shall behold God and never taste death’s woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and men mourn a space; For if above all these my sins abound, ’Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace, When we are there; here, on this lowly ground Teach me how to repent; for that’s as good As if Thou hadst sealed my pardon with Thy blood.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- John Donne (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 491 · printed citation: John Donne · subject: REPENTANCE
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