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TO GOD (1) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LORD, I AM LIKE TO MISTLETOE
Last Line: TUMBLE SHALL HEAV'N, AND DOWN WILL I.
Subject(s): GOD; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

Lord, I am like to Misletoe,
Which has no root, and cannot grow,
Or prosper, but by that same tree
It clings about; so I by Thee.
What need I then to feare at all,
So long as I about Thee craule?
But if that Tree sho'd fall, and die,
Tumble shall heav'n, and down will I.



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