Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WEIGH ALL MY FAULTS AND FOLLIES RIGHTEOUSLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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Last Line: My guilt, my folly, even my heart of stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Judgment Day


WEIGH all my faults and follies righteously,
Omissions and commissions, sin on sin;
Make deep the scale, O Lord, to weigh them in;
Yea, set the Accuser vulture-eyed to see
All loads ingathered which belong to me:
That so in life the judgment may begin
And Angels learn how hard it is to win
One solitary sinful soul to Thee.
I have no merits for a counterpoise:
Oh vanity my work and hastening day,
What can I answer to the accursing voice?
Lord, drop Thou in the counterscale alone
One Drop from Thine own Heart, and overweigh
My guilt, my folly, even my heart of stone.





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