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# Italian Sonnet
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/italian-sonnet/
- Published: 2010-04-28T13:14:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T17:14:39.000Z
- Description: Italian Sonnet
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Tex, Poetry, Liberal Arts

*I AM, the holy smoking fire,*

*Burns bright on Sinai's awful height;*

*And tremors from His words of might*

*Split wide the earth and shake the pyre*

*Where goat and bull and Self perspire:*

*Vain off'rings for the King of Light*

*Who stands with rod hard-clenched to smite—*

*Their blood poor payment for just ire.*

*'Twas Love that lit the blaze that glows,*

*Seeking payment for all my sin.*

*But lo...who now brings all man owes*

*And staves the flames from Adam's kin?*

*'Tis Love Himself now lays the Lamb*

*Across the pyre and speaks..."I AM."*