| John Donne (1572–1631). The Poems of John Donne. 1896. | | | Divine Poems
Holy Sonnets | | XV. “Wilt thou love God as He thee?” |
| | | WILT thou love God as He thee? then digest, | |
| My soul, this wholesome meditation, | |
| How God the Spirit, by angels waited on | |
| In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast. | |
| The Father having begot a Son most blest, | 5 |
| And still begetting—for he ne’er begun— | |
| Hath deign’d to choose thee by adoption, | |
| Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath’s endless rest. | |
| And as a robb’d man, which by search doth find | |
| His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again, | 10 |
| The Sun of glory came down, and was slain, | |
| Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, 1 to unbind. | |
| ’Twas much, that man was made like God before, | |
| But, that God should be made like man, much more. | |
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