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!