| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| John Donne |
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| 79. To CHRIST |
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| WILT thou forgive that sinn, where I begunn, | |
| Which is my sinn, though it were done before? | |
| Wilt thou forgive those sinns through which I runn | |
| And doe run still, though still I doe deplore? | |
| When thou has done, thou hast not done, | 5 |
| For, I have more. | |
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| Wilt thou forgive that sinn, by which I'have wonne | |
| Others to sinn, and made my sinn their dore? | |
| Wilt thou forgive that sinn which I did shunne | |
| A yeare or twoe, but wallowed in a score? | 10 |
| When thou hast done, thou hast not done, | |
| For I have more. | |
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| I have a sinn of feare that when I have spunn | |
| My last thred, I shall perish on the shore; | |
| Sweare by thy self that at my Death, thy Sonne | 15 |
| Shall shine as he shines nowe, & heretofore; | |
| And having done that, thou hast done, | |
| I feare noe more. | |
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