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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)

26. The Recommendation

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.