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Richard Crashaw
Steps to the Temple

Two went to pray? O rather say
  One went to brag, th' other to pray:

    One stands up close and treads on high,
   Where th' other dares not send his eye.  

  One nearer to God's altar trod,
The other to the altar's God.



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