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TO GOD (5) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: I'LE COME, I'LE CREEP, (THOUGH THOU DOST THREAT)
Last Line: AND STRIKE IT THROUGH.
Subject(s): GOD;
I'le come, I'le creep, (though Thou dost threat)
Humbly unto Thy Mercy-seat:
When I am there, this then I'le do,
Give Thee a Dart, and Dagger too;
Next, when I have my faults confest,
Naked I'le shew a sighing brest;
Which if that can't Thy pittie wooe,
Then let Thy Justice do the rest,
And strike it through.



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