Poem: D.H. Lawrence from The Hands of God

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But it is a much more fearful thing to fall out of them …
Save me, O God, from falling into the ungodly knowledge of myself as I am without God.
Let me never know, O God
let me never know what I am or should be
when I have fallen out of your hands,
the hands of the living God …
Save me from that, O God!
Let me never know myself apart from the living God!