<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396334" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Repentance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, I confess my sin is great; <br>Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat<br>With thy quick flow'r, thy momentany bloom; <br>Whose life still pressing<br>Is one undressing, <br>A steady aiming at a tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man's age is two hours' work, or three: <br>Each day doth round about us see.<br>Thus are we to delights: but we are all<br>To sorrows old, <br>If life be told<br>From what life feeleth, Adam's fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O let thy height of mercy then<br>Compassionate short-breathed men.<br>Cut me not off for my most foul transgression: <br>I do confess <br>My foolishness; <br>My God, accept of my confession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweeten at length this bitter bowl, <br>Which thou hast pour'd into my soul; <br>Thy wormwood turn to health, winds to fair weather: <br>For if thou stay, <br>I and this day, <br>As we did rise, we die together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thou for sin rebukest man, <br>Forthwith he waxeth woe and wan: <br>Bitterness fills our bowels; all our hearts<br>Pine, and decay, <br>And dropp away, <br>And carry with them th'other parts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But thou wilt sin and grief destroy; <br>That so the broken bones may joy, <br>And tune together in a well-set song, <br>Full of his praises, <br>Who dead men raises; <br>Fractures well cur'd make us more strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Herbert">George Herbert</a><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=396334" data-title="Repentance de George Herbert" data-description="Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat With thy quick flow'r, thy momentany bloom; Whose life still pressing Is one undressing, A steady aiming at a tomb. Man's age is two hours' work, or three: Each day doth round..."></div> </div> </div>

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