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HALF DEAD by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: O CHRIST THE LIFE, LOOK ON ME WHERE I LIE
Last Line: IT WAS NOT THEY DIED FOR US, IT WAS THOU.
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST = SUFFERING & SACRIFICE;

O CHRIST the Life, look on me where I lie
Ready to die:
O Good Samaritan, nay, pass not by.

O Christ, my Life, pour in Thine oil and wine
To keep me Thine;
Me ever Thine, and Thee for ever mine.

Watch by Thy saints and sinners, watch by all
Thy great and small:
Once Thou didst call us all, -- O Lord, recall.

Think how Thy saints love sinners, how they pray
And hope alway,
And thereby grow more like Thee day by day.

O Saint of saints, if those with prayer and vow
Succour us now....
It was not they died for us, it was Thou.



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