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O deem not that Religion’s hallowed name Is justly given to deeds of guilt and shame. Deem not she loves the faggot and the steel, The blood-stained hand, the heart untaught to feel. Trace not her footsteps in the princely hall, Where Borgia’s father held high festival. She flees from haunts of guilt, nor heeds her voice To bid the unrepentant heart rejoice; To the seared spirit opes no ready heaven; Forgives not him whom God hath not forgiven; Nor loves she pomp’s vain homage; not the tide Of low oblations at the shrine of pride.
O deem not that Religion’s hallowed name Is justly given to deeds of guilt and shame. Deem not she loves the faggot and the steel, The blood-stained hand, the heart untaught to feel. Trace not her footsteps in the princely hall, Where Borgia’s father held high festival. She flees from haunts of guilt, nor heeds her voice To bid the unrepentant heart rejoice; To the seared spirit opes no ready heaven; Forgives not him whom God hath not forgiven; Nor loves she pomp’s vain homage; not the tide Of low oblations at the shrine of pride.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Wm. Spicer Wood (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 486 · printed citation: Wm. Spicer Wood · subject: RELIGION
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