His life-giving Death (Richard Crashaw)

 These houres, and that which hovers o’re my End,

Into thy hands, and hart, Lord, I commend.

           

Take Both to Thine Account, that I and mine

In that Hour, and in these, may be all thine.

           

That as I dedicate my devoutest Breath

To make a kind of Life for my Lord’s Death,

           

So from his living, and life-giving Death,

My dying Life may draw a new, and never fleeting Breath.

--Richard Crashaw (1612-1649), 

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