“O Lord, forgive me my sins,
the sins of my youth, and my present sins,
the sin that my parents cast upon me, original sin,
and the sins that I cast upon my children,
in an ill example;
actual sins, sins which are manifest to all the world,
and sins which I have so labored
to hide from the world,
as that now they are hid from mine own conscience,
and mine own memory.”
John Donne (1571-1631)
