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| But most the eye needs crossing, that can rome |
| And move: To th' others objects must come home, |
| And cross thy heart: for that in man alone |
| Pants downwards, and hath palpitation. |
| Cross those detorsions, when it downward tends, |
| And when it to forbidden heights pretends. |
| And as the brain through bony walls doth vent |
| By Sutures, which a Crosses form present: |
| So when thy brain works, e're thou utter it, |
| Cross and corrrect concupiscence of wit. |
| Be covetous of crosses, let none fall. |
| Cross no man else, but cross thy self in all. |
| Then doth the cross of Christ work faithfully |
| Within our hearts, when we love harmlesly |
| The Crosses pictures much, and with more care |
| That crosses children, which our crosses are. |
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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems,
elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions] |