Friday, April 9, 2010

A Sheaf Of Snakes Used Heretofore To Be My Seal, The Crest Of Our Poor Family Comments

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ADOPTED in God's family and so
Our old coat lost, unto new arms I go.
The Cross—my seal at baptism—spread below
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John Donne
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* Sunprincess * 19 March 2014

.........nice stanza....enjoyed.. This seal's a catechism, not a seal alone. Under that little seal great gifts I send, Works, and prayers, pawns, and fruits of a friend. And may that saint which rides in our great seal, To you who bear his name, * great bounties deal!

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