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JESU by GEORGE HERBERT

Poet Analysis

First Line: JESU IS IN MY HEART, HIS SACRED NAME
Last Line: AND TO MY WHOLE IS JESU.
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
JESU is in my heart, his sacred name
Is deeply carved there. But th' other week
A great affliction broke the little frame,
Ev'n all to pieces; which I went to seek:
And first I found the corner where was J,
After, where ES, and next where U, was graved.
When I had got these parcels, instantly
I sat me down to spell them, and perceived
That to my broken heart he was I ease you,
And to my whole is JESU.



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