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    Posted on July 5th, 2009sherryPoets

    Divine Meditations

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    At the round earth’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 overthrow,
    All whom war, dearth, 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 me 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.

    —John Donne, The Complete Poems (Penguin, 1971)

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