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IF I SHOULD SAY MY HEART IS IN MY HOME by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Nor to have lived nor to have died in vain
Subject(s): HEARTS; JESUS CHRIST – SUFFERING & SACRIFICE;

If I should say "my heart is in my home,"
I turn away from that high halidom
Where Jesus sits: for nowhere else
But with its treasure dwells
The heart: this Truth and this experience tells.

If I should say "my heart is in a grave,"
I turn away from Jesus risen to save:
I slight that death He died for me;
I too deny to see
His beauty and desirability.

O Lord, Whose Heart is deeper than my heart,
Draw mine to Thine to worship where Thou art;
For Thine own glory join the twain
Never to part again,
Nor to have lived nor to have died in vain.



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