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AFTERWARD HE REPENTED, AND WENT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: LORD, WHEN MY HEART WAS WHOLE I KEPT IT BACK
Last Line: AND ANSWER 'GIVE IT ME.'
Subject(s): FORGIVENESS; GOD; SIN;

LORD, when my heart was whole I kept it back
And grudged to give it Thee.
Now then that it is broken, must I lack
Thy kind word 'Give it Me'?
Silence would be but just, and Thou art just.
Yet since I lie here shattered in the dust,
With still an eye to lift to Thee,
A broken heart to give,
I think that Thou wilt bid me live,
And answer 'Give it Me.'



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