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HOLY SONNET: NATIVITIE by JOHN DONNE

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First Line: IMMENSITIE CLOYSTERD IN THY DEARE WOMBE
Last Line: WITH HIS KINDE MOTHER, WHO PARTAKES THY WOE.
Subject(s): BIBLE; CHRISTMAS; RELIGION; NATIVITY, THE; THEOLOGY;

@3Immensitie cloysterd in thy deare wombe,@1
Now leaves his welbelov'd imprisonment,
There he hath made himselfe to his intent
Weake enough, now into our world to come;
But Oh, for thee, for him, hath th'Inne no roome?
Yet lay him in this stall, and from the Orient,
Starres, and wisemen will travell to prevent
Th'effect of @3Herods@1 jealous generall doome.
Seest thou, my Soule, with thy faiths eyes, how he
Which fils all place, yet none holds him, doth lye?
Was not his pity towards thee wondrous high,
That would have need to be pittied by thee?
Kisse him, and with him into Egypt goe,
@3With his kinde mother, who partakes thy woe.@1



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