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THE LITANY: 15 by JOHN DONNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: FROM BEING ANXIOUS, OR SECURE
Last Line: WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT, GOOD LORD DELIVER US.

From being anxious, or secure,
Dead clods of sadnesse, or light squibs of mirth,
From thinking, that great courts immure
All, or no happinesse, or that this earth
Is only for our prison fram'd,
Or that thou art covetous
To them whom thou lovest, or that they are maim'd
From reaching this worlds sweet, who seek thee thus,
With all their might, Good Lord deliver us.



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