1 janv. 1620 - "Holy Sonnet 18" by John Donne

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Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear. What, is it she, which on the other shore
Goes richly painted? or which robbed and tore Laments and mourns in Germany and here? Sleeps she a thousand, then peeps up one year?
Is she self truth and errs? now new, now outwore? Doth she, and did she, and shall she evermore
On one, on seven, or on no hill appear?
Dwells she with us, or like adventuring knights
First travail we to seek and then make love?
Betray kind husband thy spouse to our sights,
And let mine amorous soul court thy mild dove,
Who is most true, and pleasing to thee, then
When she is embraced and open to most men.

- narrator asks for God to reveal the True Church
- spouse of the lamb in Revelation 19
- poem in actuality coveys the sense of the provisionality of the Church of England (unfinished etc.)

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