| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Time Flies.
IV. “Weigh All My Faults and Follies” | | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| | April 6
WEIGH all my faults and follies righteously, | |
| Omissions and commissions, sin on sin; | |
| Make deep the scale, O Lord, to weigh them in; | |
| Yea, set the Accuser vulture-eyed to see | |
| All loads ingathered which belong to me: | 5 |
| That so in life the judgment may begin | |
| And Angels learn how hard it is to win | |
| One solitary sinful soul to Thee. | |
| I have no merits for a counterpoise: | |
| Oh vanity my work and hastening day, | 10 |
| What can I answer to the accursing voice? | |
| Lord, drop Thou in the counterscale alone | |
| One Drop from Thine own Heart, and overweigh | |
| My guilt, my folly, even my heart of stone. | | | | |
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