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THE LITANY: 22 by JOHN DONNE

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First Line: IN CHURCHES, WHEN THE INFIRMITY
Last Line: DELIVER US FROM THE SINISTER WAY.
In Churches, when the infirmitie
Of him which speakes, diminishes the Word,
When Magistrates doe mis-apply
To us, as we judge, lay or ghostly sword,
When plague, which is thine Angell, raignes,
Or wars, thy Champions, swaie,
When Heresie, thy second deluge, gaines;
In th'houre of death, the'Eve of last judgement day,
Deliver us from the sinister way.



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