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Holy Sonnet IX: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree by John Donne

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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 ******, 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 ***; in his stern wrath, why threatens he?
But who am I, that dare dispute with thee
O ***? Oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sin’s black memory;
That thou remember them, some claim as debt,
I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

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Published in John Donne Poems