XLIX. Sir Henry Wotton. A Hymn. Edward Farr, ed. 1847. Select Poetry, Chiefly Sacred, of the Reign of King James the First

Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847.

A Hymn

XLIX. Sir Henry Wotton


OH, thou great Power! in whom I move,
For whom I live, to whom I die,
Behold me through thy beams of love,
Whilst on this couch of tears I lie;
And cleanse my sordid soul within,	5
By thy Christ’s blood, the bath of sin.

No hallowed oyls, no grains I need,
No rags of saints, no purging fire;
One rosie drop from David’s seed
Was worlds of seas to quench thine ire:	10
O precious ransome! which once paid,
That Consummatum est was said;

And said by Him that said no more,
But seal’d it with his sacred breath:
Thou, then, that has dispong’d my score,	15
And dying wast the death of Death,
Be to me now, on thee I call,
My life, my strength, my joy, my all!