This Shakespearean sonnet captures the journey from sin to salvation, echoing the biblical call to be “born again” through faith and divine intervention.

When former sinner, clad in dark’s embrace,
Doth languish low beneath the weight of woe,
A whisper’d mercy gilds the soul with grace,
And bids new life from death’s deep vale to grow.
The chains of guilt, that bound the spirit fast,
Are rent asunder by a heav’nly call,
No more the flesh doth rule as in the past,
But rises free from sin’s o’erbearing thrall.
This former sinner, once a wretch forlorn,
Doth shed his shroud as twilight yields to morn,
In hallow’d tide, the soul is newly born,
A vessel cleansed, by sacred waters worn.
Thus, lifted high from shadows of despair,
The saved do sing of joy beyond compare.