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DAY AND NIGHT THE ACCUSER MAKES NO PAUSE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

Last Line: And the worm that gnaws
Subject(s): SALVATION;
Day and night the Accuser makes no pause.
Day and night protest the Righteous Laws,
Good and Evil witness to man's flaws;
Man the culprit, man's the ruined cause,
Man midway to death's devouring jaws
And the worm that gnaws.
Day and night our Jesus makes no pause,
Pleads His own fulfilment of all laws,
Veils with His Perfections mortal laws,
Clears the culprit, pleads the desperate cause.
Plucks the dead from death's devouring jaws,
And the worm that gnaws.



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