I HAVE consider'd it, and finde There is no dealing with thy mighty passion? For though I die for thee, I am behinde; My sinnes deserve the condemnation. O make me innocent, that I May give a disentangled state and free; And yet thy wounds still my attempts defie, For by thy death I die for thee. Ah! was it not enough that thou By thy eternall glorie didst outgo me? Couldst thou not griefs sad conquest me allow, But in all vict'ries overthrow me? Yet by confession will I come Into the conquest. Though I can do nought Against thee, in thee I will overcome The man who once against thee fought. |