Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you        [3-person'd = Holy Trinity]]

As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;

That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.                                   4

I, like an usurp'd town to another due,             [usurp'd = seized, captured]

Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;

Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,  [viceroy = local ruler acting for king / "roi"]

But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.         [captiv'd = captured, held hostage]               8

Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,     [fain = happily]

But am betroth'd unto your enemy;

Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,

Take me to you, imprison me, for I,                                                             12

Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,      [enthrall = enslave, master]

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.         [ravish = remove, transport, as from earth to heaven, but also denoting rape]