Batter my heart, three-person'd God
John Donne
1572 to 1631
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Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
As yet ______ knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I ______ rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force ______ break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like ______ usurp'd town to another due,
Labor to admit you, ______ oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, ______ should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie ______ break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.