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TO GOD (10) by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: PARDON ME GOD, (ONCE MORE I THEE INTREAT)
Last Line: AND THAT WILL MAKE ME, AND MY WORK DIVINE.
Subject(s): GOD;
Pardon me God, (once more I Thee intreat)
That I have plac'd Thee in so meane a seat,
Where round about Thou seest but all things vaine,
Uncircumcis'd, unseason'd, and prophane.
But as Heavens publike and immortall Eye
Looks on the filth, but is not soil'd thereby;
So Thou, my God, may'st on this impure look,
But take no tincture from my sinfull Book:
Let but one beame of Glory on it shine,
And that will make me, and my Work divine.



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