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FOR THINE OWN SAKE, O MY GOD by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: WEARIED OF SINNING, WEARIED OF REPENTANCE
Last Line: I PLEAD THYSELF WITH THEE.
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST; SIN;

WEARIED of sinning, wearied of repentance,
Wearied of self, I turn, my God, to Thee;
To Thee, my Judge, on Whose all-righteous sentence
Hangs mine eternity:
I turn to Thee, I plead Thyself with Thee, --
Be pitiful to me.

Wearied I loathe myself, I loathe my sinning,
My stains, my festering sores, my misery:
Thou the Beginning, Thou ere my beginning
Didst see and didst foresee
Me miserable, me sinful, ruined me, --
I plead Thyself with Thee.

I plead Thyself with Thee Who art my maker,
Regard Thy handiwork that cries to Thee;
I plead Thyself with Thee Who wast partaker
Of mine infirmity;
Love made Thee what Thou art, the love of me, --
I plead Thyself with Thee.



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