Thy words shoot through my 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.

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