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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness

John Donne (1572–1631)

SINCE I am coming to that holy room,

Where with the choir of saints forevermore

I shall be made thy music, as I come

I tune the instrument here at the door,

And what I must do then, think here before.

We think that Paradise and Calvary,

Christ’s cross and Adam’s tree, stood in one place:

Look, Lord, and find both Adams met in me;

As the first Adam’s sweat surrounds my face,

May the last Adam’s blood my soul embrace.

So, in his purple wrapped, receive me, Lord;

By these his thorns give me his other crown;

And as to others’ souls I preached thy word,

Be this my text, my sermon to mine own:

Therefore, that he may raise, the Lord throws down.