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In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be an emblem of Thy ark; What sea soever swallow me, that flood Shall be to me an emblem of Thy blood: Though Thou with clouds of anger do disguise Thy face, yet through that mask I know those eyes, Which, though they turn away sometimes, They never will despise. I sacrifice this Island unto Thee, And all whom I loved there, and who loved me; When I have put our seas ’twixt them and me, Put Thou Thy seas betwixt my sins and Thee: As the tree’s sap doth seek the root below In winter, in my winter now I go Where none but Thee, th’ eternal root Of true love, I may know.
In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be an emblem of Thy ark; What sea soever swallow me, that flood Shall be to me an emblem of Thy blood: Though Thou with clouds of anger do disguise Thy face, yet through that mask I know those eyes, Which, though they turn away sometimes, They never will despise. I sacrifice this Island unto Thee, And all whom I loved there, and who loved me; When I have put our seas ’twixt them and me, Put Thou Thy seas betwixt my sins and Thee: As the tree’s sap doth seek the root below In winter, in my winter now I go Where none but Thee, th’ eternal root Of true love, I may know.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Dr. Donne (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 119 · printed citation: Dr. Donne · subject: CHRIST—CHRISTMAS
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