Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFFLICTION (2), by GEORGE HERBERT



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First Line: Kill me not ev'ry day
Last Line: By way of imprest, all my future mone.


KILL me not ev'ry day,
Thou Lord of life; since thy one death for me
Is more than all my deaths can be,
Though I in broken pay
Die over each hour of Methusalems stay.

If all mens tears were let
Into one common sewer, sea, and brine;
What were they all, compar'd to thine?
Wherein if they were set,
They would discolour thy most bloudy sweat.

Thou art my grief alone;
Thou, Lord, conceal it not; and as thou art
All my delight, so all my smart:
Thy crosse took up in one,
By way of imprest, all my future mone.





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