Religion

Remember Not Our Iniquities

by Mary E. Coleridge 1861–1907

From Poems (1908)

Religion

"Remember not!" I say to Him whose face
Is as the earnest of eternal grace.

"Remember not!" If Thou remember all,
Even from Thy grace even I, Thy child, must fall.
Yet on my knees I dare not breathe a prayer
That is but empty coinage of the air.
There shall not fail one tittle or one jot,
And shall Thy children cry "Remember not!"

MLA

Coleridge, Mary E. “Remember Not Our Iniquities.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/122/.

Chicago

Coleridge, Mary E. “Remember Not Our Iniquities.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_m/122/.

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