Moist with one drop of thy blood, my dry soul
Shall (though she now be in extreme degree
Too stony hard, and yet too fleshy,) be
Freed by that drop, from being starv'd, hard, or foul
And life, by this death abled, shall control
Death, whom thy death slew; nor shall to me
Fear of first or last death. bring misery,
If in thy little book my name thou enroll,
Flesh in that long sleep is not putrefied,
But made that there, of which, and for which 'twas;
Nor can any other means be glorified.
May then sin's sleep, and deaths soon from me pass,
That wak'd from both, I again risen may
Salute the last, and everlasting day.
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