Thy words shoot through my heart.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

The term allocution refers to the personal right of a defendant to make a statement on his own behalf in an attempt to affect sentencing. . . . The word allocution is also frequently used . . . to describe the statement made by a defendant during a guilty plea proceeding.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.