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TO GOD (6) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: MAKE, MAKE ME THINE, MY GRACIOUS GOD
Last Line: BUT I AS PATIENT WILL BE FOUND.
Subject(s): PATIENCE;

Make, make me Thine, my gracious God,
Or with thy staffe, or with thy rod;
And be the blow too what it will,
Lord, I will kisse it, though it kill:
Beat me, bruise me, rack me, rend me,
Yet, in torments, I'le commend Thee:
Examine me with fire, and prove me
To the full, yet I will love Thee:
Nor shalt thou give so deep a wound,
But I as patient will be found.



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