That learning, Thine ambassador

   That learning, Thine ambassador, 
From Thine allegiance we never tempt ; 
   That beauty, paradise's flower 
For physic made, from poison be exempt ; 
              That wit -- born apt high good to do --  
              By dwelling lazily 
On nature's nothing be not nothing too ; 
That our affections kill us not, nor die ; 
Hear us, weak echoes, O, Thou Ear and Eye.

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Authorship

• by John Donne (1572 - 1631), no title, appears in A Litany, no. 27 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Ernst Křenek (1900 - 1991), "Litanie XXVII", 1944, published 1954, from Five Prayers for Women's Voices over the Pater Noster as Cantus Firmus [
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