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by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

To God
Language: English 
Come to me God ; but do not come
To me, as to the gen'rall Doome, 
In power; or come Thou in that state, 
When Thou Thy Lawes didst promulgate, 
When as the [Mountains]1 quak'd for dread, 
And sullen clouds bound up his head. 
[No, lay thy stately terrours by, 
To talke with me familiarly;]2
For if Thy thunder-claps I heare, 
I shall lesse swoone, then die for feare. 
Speake thou of love and I'le reply 
[By way of Epithalamie,]2
Or sing of mercy, and I'le suit 
To it my Violl and my Lute: 
Thus let Thy lips but love distill, 
Then come my God, and hap what will.

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•   G. Dyson 

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1 Dyson: "mountain"
2 omitted by Dyson.

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To God" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
  • by George Dyson (1883 - 1964), "Come to me God ; but do not come", from Quo Vadis: a Cycle of Poems, no. 7..
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 108

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