Father, part of his double interest <br />Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me, <br />His jointure in the knotty Trinity <br />He keeps, and gives to me his deaths conquest. <br />This Lamb, whose death, with life the world hath blest, <br />Was from the worlds beginning slain, and he <br />Hath made two Wills, which with the Legacy <br />Of his and thy kingdom, doe thy Sons invest. <br />Yet such are thy laws, that men argue yet <br />Whether a man those statutes can fulfill; <br />None doth; but all-healing grace and spirit <br />Revive again what law and letter kill. <br />Thy laws abridgement, and thy last command <br />Is all but love; Oh let this last Will stand!<br /><br />John Donne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/holy-sonnet-xvi-father-3/
