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CAELICA: 99 by FULKE GREVILLE

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First Line: DOWN IN THE DEPTH OF MINE INIQUITY
Last Line: THUS HATH HIS DEATH RAISED UP THIS SOUL OF MINE.
Down in the depth of mine iniquity,
That ugly center of infernal spirits;
Where each sin feels her own deformity,
In these peculiar torments she inherits,
Deprived of human graces, and divine,
Even there appears this saving God of mine.
And in this fatal mirror of transgression,
Shows man as fruit of his degeneration,
The error's ugly infinite impression,
Which bears the faithless down to desperation;
Deprived of human graces and divine,
Even there appears this saving God of mine.
In power and truth, Almighty and eternal,
Which on the sin reflects strange desolation,
With glory scourging all the Sprites infernal,
And uncreated hell with unprivation;
Deprived of human graces, not divine,
Even there appears this saving God of mine.
For on this spritual Cross condemned lying,
To pains infernal by eternal doom,
I see my Saviour for the same sins dying,
And from that hell I feared, to free me, come;
Deprived of human graces, not divine,
Thus hath his death raised up this soul of mine.



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