Love's Humility

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

MY worthiness is all my doubt,

      His merit all my fear,

Contrasting which, my qualities

      Do lowlier appear;


Lest I should insufficient prove

      For his beloved need,

The chiefest apprehension

      Within my loving creed.


So I, the undivine abode

      Of his elect content,

Conform my soul as 't were a church

      Unto her sacrament.

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