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CHURCH LOCK AND KEY by GEORGE HERBERT

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First Line: I KNOW IT IS MY SIN WHICH LOCKS THINE EARS
Last Line: HIS BLOUDS SWEET CURRENT MUCH MORE LOUD TO BE.
I KNOW it is my sinne which locks thine eares,
And bindes thy hands!
Out-crying my requests, drowning my tears;
Or else the chilnesse of my faint demands.

But as cold hands are angrie with the fire,
And mend it still;
So I do lay the want of my desire,
Not on my sinnes or coldnesse, but thy will.

Yet heare, O God! onely for his blouds sake,
Which pleads for me:
For though sinnes plead too, yet like stones they make
His blouds sweet current much more loud to be.



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