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In what torn ship so ever I embark, / That ship shall be my emblem of Thy ark; / What sea soever swallow me, that flood / Shall be to me an emblem of Thy blood; / Though Thou with clouds of anger do disguise / Thy face, yet through that mask I know those eyes, / Which, though they turn away sometimes, / They never will despise.
I sacrifice this island unto Thee, / And all whom I love there, and who love me; / When I have put our seas 'twixt them and me, / Put thou Thy seas betwixt my sins and Thee. / As the tree's sap doth seek the root below / In winter, in my winter now I go, / Where none but Thee, the eternal root / Of true love, I may know.