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TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY by RICHARD CRASHAW

Poet Analysis

First Line: TWO WENT TO PRAY? O RATHER SAY
Last Line: THE OTHER TO THE ALTAR'S GOD.
Subject(s): BIBLE; PRAYER; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
TWO went to pray? O, rather say,
One went to brag, the other to pray;

One stands up close and treads on high,
Where the other dares not lend his eye;

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



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