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SIN (4) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE IS NO EVILL THAT WE DO COMMIT
Last Line: DRAWES OUT TH' ELIXAR OF TRUE PENITENCE.
Subject(s): SIN;

There is no evill that we do commit,
But hath th' extraction of some good from it:
As when we sin; God, the great Chymist, thence
Drawes out th' Elixar of true penitence.



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