Poetry & Verse
Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree
By John DonneSource: John Donne - PoetryDB (Public Domain)Short96 words
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned, alas,...
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned, alas, why should I be? Why should intent or reason, born in me, Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous? And Mercy being easy, and glorious To God; in his stern wrath, why threatens he?…
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