<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419661" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ADOPTED in God's family and so <br>Our old coat lost, unto new arms I go. <br>The Cross—my seal at baptism—spread below <br>Does, by that form, into an Anchor grow. <br>Crosses grow Anchors ; bear, as thou shouldest do <br>Thy Cross, and that Cross grows an Anchor too. <br>But He that makes our Crosses Anchors thus, <br>Is Christ, who there is crucified for us. <br>Yet may I, with this, my first serpents hold ; <br>God gives new blessings, and yet leaves the old. <br>The serpent may, as wise, my pattern be ; <br>My poison, as he feeds on dust, that's me. <br>And, as he rounds the earth to murder sure, <br>My death he is, but on the Cross, my cure. <br>Crucify nature then, and then implore <br>All grace from Him, crucified there before ; <br>Then all is Cross, and that Cross Anchor grown ; <br>This seal's a catechism, not a seal alone. <br>Under that little seal great gifts I send, <br>Works, and prayers, pawns, and fruits of a friend. <br>And may that saint which rides in our great seal, <br>To you who bear his name,* great bounties deal !</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><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=419661" data-title="A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family de John Donne" data-description="ADOPTED in God's family and so Our old coat lost, unto new arms I go. The Cross—my seal at baptism—spread below Does, by that form, into an Anchor grow. Crosses grow Anchors ; bear, as thou shouldest do Thy Cross, and that Cross grows an ..."></div> </div> </div>

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