Versos English James Thomson - Once in a Saintly Passion

English poem

Once in a Saintly Passion

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"Once in a saintly passion I cried with desperate grief, O Lord, my heart is black with guile, Of sinners I am chief. Then stooped my guardian angel And whispered from behind, 'Vanity, my little man, You're nothing of the kind.'"