Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, O CHRIST OUR ALL IN EACH, OUR ALL IN ALL!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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Last Line: And if thou hold me fast, yet cleave to thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


O Christ our All in each, our All in all!
Others have this or that, a love, a friend,
A trusted teacher, a long-worked-for end:
But what to me were Peter or were Paul
Without Thee? fame or friend if such might be?
Thee wholly will I love, Thee wholly seek.
Follow Thy foot-track, hearken for Thy call.
O Christ mine All in all, my flesh is weak,
A trembling fawning tyrant unto me:
Turn, look upon me, let me hear Thee speak:
Tho' bitter billows of Thine utmost sea
Swathe me, and darkness build around its wall.
Yet will I rise. Thou lifting when I fall,
And if Thou hold me fast, yet cleave to Thee.





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