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MAYBE MY SOUL FELL FROM ITS HIGH ESTATE, by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who am so far from god, so near to death
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness


Maybe my soul fell from its high estate,
Alone, without or counsellor or guide,
To make me pitiful toward the fate
Of others and not scornful in my pride.
Beneath what banner may I strive aright
And triumph save 'neath Thine which hath my love ?
I fear to perish in the clam'rous fight,
Do Thou from me Thy saving strength remove.

O may Thy body, blood and cross, Thy last
End and its bitterness bear sin away
In which I and my fathers first drew breath !
Upon Thy mercy all my hopes are cast,
Forgive my sorry trespasses, I pray,
Who am so far from God, so near to death





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