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WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: One sorrow more? I thought the tale complete
Last Line: One sorrow more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


'ONE sorrow more? I thought the tale complete.' --
He bore amiss who grudges what he bore:
Stretch out thy hands and urge thy feet to meet
One sorrow more.

Yea, make thy count for two or three or four:
The kind Physician will not slack to treat
His patient while there's rankling in the sore.

Bear up in anguish, ease will yet be sweet;
Bear up all day, for night has rest in store:
Christ bears thy burden with thee, rise and greet
One sorrow more.





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