# “The Son’s Ascension” by John Donne

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- Published: 2009-04-30T14:14:47-05:00
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“Salute the last and everlasting day,
 Joy at th’ uprising of this Sun, and Son,
Ye whose true tears, or tribulation Have purely wash’d, or burnt your drossy clay.
Behold, the Highest, parting hence away, Lightens the dark clouds, which He treads
upon; Nor doth He by ascending show alone, But first He, and He first enters the
way. O strong Ram, which hast batter’d heaven for me! Mild Lamb, which with Thy 
Blood hast mark’d the path! Bright Torch, which shinest, that I the way may see!
O, with Thy own Blood quench Thy own just wrath; And if Thy Holy Spirit my Muse 
did raise, Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise.”

–John Donne, “La Corona,” in _Poems of John Donne_, Vol 1, Ed. E. K. Chambers (London:
Lawrence & Bullen, 1896), 156.

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