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WEARY [IN WELL-DOING] by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: I WOULD HAVE GONE; GOD BADE ME STAY
Last Line: AND REST WITH THEE?
Subject(s): JESUS CHRIST; WORSHIP;
I would have gone; God bade me stay:
I would have worked; God bade me rest.
He broke my will from day to day;
He read my yearnings unexprest,
And said them nay.
Now I would stay; God bids me go:
Now I would rest; God bids me work.
He breaks my heart tost to and fro;
My soul is wrung with doubts that lurk
And vex is so.
I go, Lord, where Thou sendest me;
Day after day I plod and moil;
But, Christ my God, when will it be
That I may let alone my toil
And rest with Thee?




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