O do not use me <br /> <br />After my sins! look not on my dessert, <br /> <br />But on your glory! Then you will reform <br /> <br />And not refuse me: for you only art <br /> <br />The mighty God, but I a silly worm; <br /> <br /> O do not bruise me! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> O do not urge me! <br /> <br />For what account can your ill steward make? <br /> <br />I have abused your stock, destroyed your woods, <br /> <br />Sucked all your storehouses: my head did ache, <br /> <br />Till it found out how to consume your goods: <br /> <br /> O do not scourge me! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> O do not blind me! <br /> <br />I have deserved that an Egyptian night <br /> <br />Should thicken all my powers; because my lust <br /> <br />Has still sewed fig-leaves to exclude your light: <br /> <br />But I am frailty, and already dust; <br /> <br /> O do not grind me! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> O do not fill me <br /> <br />With the turned vial of your bitter wrath! <br /> <br />For you have other vessels full of blood, <br /> <br />A part whereof my Savior emptied hath, <br /> <br />Even unto death: since he died for my good, <br /> <br /> O do not kill me! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> But O reprieve me! <br /> <br />For you have life and death at your command; <br /> <br />You are both Judge and Savior, feast and rod, <br /> <br />Cordial and Corrosive: put not your hand <br /> <br />Into the bitter box; but O my God, <br /> <br /> My God, relieve me!<br /><br />George Herbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sighs-and-groans/
