Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God

• Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you
• As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;
• That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow mee,’and bend
• Your force, to breake, blow, burn and make me new.
• I, like an usurpt towne, to’another due,
• Labour to’admit you, but Oh, to no end,
• Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,
• But is captiv’d, and proves weake or untrue.
• Yet dearley’I love you,’and would be loved faine,
• But am betroth’d unto your enemie:
• Divorce mee,’untie, or breake that knot againe,
• Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I
• Except you’enthrall mee, never shall be free,
• Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.

John Donne