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were it a game.
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Which it is not.
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"...threw death on else immortal us
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"If lecherous goats, if serpents envious
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"Cannot be damned
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"Alas, why should I be?
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"Why should intent or reason, born in me
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"Make sins, else equal,
in me more heinous?
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"And mercy being easy,
and glorious to God
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"in his stern wrath, why threatens he?
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"But who am I,
that dare dispute with thee?
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"O God. Oh! of thine only worthy blood,
and my tears
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"make a heavenly Lethean flood
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"And drown in it my sin's black memory
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"That thou remember them,
some claim as debt
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"I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget"
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A typical prayer would plead,
"Remember me, O Lord."
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True believers ask to be
remembered by God.
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The speaker of this sonnet
asks God to forget.
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We want to correct the speaker.
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To remind him of
the assurance of salvation.
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But it's too late,
the poetic encounter is over.
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We are left to our own consciences.
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- Have we outwitted Donne?
- Miss Bearing.
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Or, have we been outwitted?
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What is it?
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You have to go down for a test.
Jason just called.
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Another ultrasound.