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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHURCH LOCK AND KEY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I know it is my sin which locks thine ears
Last Line: His blouds sweet current much more loud to be.
First Line: I know it is my sin which locks thine ears
Last Line: His blouds sweet current much more loud to be.
I KNOW it is my sinne which locks thine eares,
And bindes thy hands!
Out-crying my requests, drowning my tears;
Or else the chilnesse of my faint demands.
But as cold hands are angrie with the fire,
And mend it still;
So I do lay the want of my desire,
Not on my sinnes or coldnesse, but thy will.
Yet heare, O God! onely for his blouds sake,
Which pleads for me:
For though sinnes plead too, yet like stones they make
His blouds sweet current much more loud to be.
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