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HOLY SONNET: LA CORONA by JOHN DONNE

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First Line: DEIGN AT MY HANDS THIS CROWN OF PRAYER AND PRAISE
Last Line: SALVATION TO ALL THAT WILL IS NIGH.
Subject(s): BIBLE; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

@3DEigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,@1
Weav'd in my low devout melancholie,
Thou which of good, hast, yea art treasury,
All changing unchang'd Antient of dayes;
But doe not, with a vile crowne of fraile bayes,
Reward my muses white sincerity,
But what thy thorny crowne gain'd, that give mee,
A crowne of Glory, which doth flower alwayes;
The ends crowne our workes, but thou crown'st our ends,
For, at our end begins our endlesse rest;
The first last end, now zealously possest,
With a strong sober thirst, my soule attends.
'Tis time that heart and voice be lifted high,
@3Salvation to all that will is nigh.@1



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