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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNE

Death God Live Myself See
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE

Eyes Face Myself
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE

Angel God Present Stone Straw
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNE

Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNE

Control Love Oneself Room
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE

God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNE

God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNE

Life Love Myself Wonder
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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