<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37028" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Holy Sonnet 9</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,<br>Whose fruit threw death on (else immortal) us,<br>If lecherous goats, if serpents envious<br>Cannot be damn'd, alas ! why should I be?<br>Why should intent or reason, born in me,<br>Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous?<br>And, mercy being easy, and glorious<br>To God, in His stern wrath why threatens He?<br>But who am I, that dare dispute with Thee?<br>O God, O! of Thine only worthy blood,<br>And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,<br>And drown in it my sin's black memory.<br>That Thou remember them, some claim as debt;<br>I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a> from <i>Holy Sonnets</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37028" data-title="Holy Sonnet 9 de John Donne" data-description="If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,/Whose fruit threw death on (else immortal) us,/If lecherous goats, if serpents envious/Cannot be damn'd, alas ! why should I be?/Why should intent or reason, born in me,/Make sins, else equal, in me more he..."></div> </div> </div>

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