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Another Perspective
Been There, Donne That
Meditating on John Donne's Holy Sonnets this Lent.
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We are little worlds made of body and soul, expertly made, but sin
has betrayed these worlds to “endless night,” to the grave and
everlasting damnation. The Scriptures are clear what the wages of
sin entail: death. Donne then calls upon God.
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blockquote>
em>You which beyond that heaven which was most
high
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Have found new spheres, and of new lands can write,
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Pour new seas in mine eyes, that so I might
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Drown my world with my weeping earnestly,
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Or wash it if it must not be drowned no more;
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/blockquote>
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He desires to lament his sins, but even for this he calls upon God
to “pour new seas in mine eyes …” If this sinful world — that
is, Donne himself — cannot be drowned because God said he would
never again drown the world, he asks to be washed by these
plentiful tears.
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blockquote>
em>But oh it must be burnt; alas the fire
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Of lust and envy have burnt it heretofore,
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