| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | The Rivulet (1871).
VI. “O, break my heart” | | By Thomas Toke Lynch (1818–1871) |
| | | O, BREAK my heart; but break it as a field | |
| Is by the plough up-broken for the corn: | |
| O, break it as the buds, by green leaf sealed, | |
| Are, to unloose the golden blossom, torn: | |
| Love would I offer unto love’s great Master, | 5 |
| Set free the odour, break the alabaster. | |
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| O, break my heart; break it, victorious God, | |
| That life’s eternal well may flash abroad: | |
| O, let it break as when the captive trees, | |
| Breaking cold bonds, regain their liberties: | 10 |
| And as thought’s sacred grove to life is springing, | |
| Be joys, like birds, their hope Thy victory singing. | | | | |
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