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THE LITANY: 19 by JOHN DONNE

Poet Analysis

First Line: AND THROUGH THAT BITTER AGONY
Last Line: WEE MAY NOT, AND WE MAY BLINDE UNJUST MEN.
And through that bitter agonie,
Which is still the agonie of pious wits,
Disputing what distorted thee,
And interrupted evennesse, with fits;
And through thy free confession
Though thereby they were then
Made blind, so that thou might'st from them have gone,
Good Lord deliver us, and teach us when
Wee may not, and we may blinde unjust men.



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