Clasping Of Hands

Lord, Thou art mine, and I am Thine, 

If mine I am: and Thine much more 

Then I or ought, or can be mine. 

Yet to be Thine, doth me restore; 

So that again I now am mine,         

And with advantage mine the more. 

Since this being mine, brings with it Thine, 

And Thou with me dost Thee restore.

  If I without Thee would be mine, 

  I neither should be mine nor Thine.       

Lord, I am Thine, and Thou art mine: 

So mine Thou art, that something more 

I may presume Thee mine, then Thine, 

For Thou didst suffer to restore 

Not Thee, but me, and to be mine:       

And with advantage mine the more, 

Since Thou in death wast none of Thine, 

Yet then as mine didst me restore. 

  O be mine still! still make me Thine;

  Or rather make no Thine and Mine!