The Recommendation

Richard Crashaw

These houres, and that which hovers ore my End,
Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend.

Take Both to Thine Account, that I and mine
In that Hour, and in these, may be all thine.

That as I dedicate my devoutest Breath
To make a kind of Life for my lords Death,

So from his living, and life-giving Death,
My dying Life may draw a new, and never fleeting Breath. 

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