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Our sins ‘red’ or ‘black’

Not long before his death in 1631, the Anglican poet and cleric John Donne (1572–1631) penned a series of what he called ‘Holy Sonnets’.

History Professor Michael Haykin
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In the fourth of them he employed the metaphors of treason and theft to express his fear of facing the judgement of God: