RPO -- Richard Crashaw : Two Went up into the Temple to Pray

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

Two Went up into the Temple to Pray

1 Two went to pray? O rather say

2One went to brag, th' other to pray:

3 One stands up close and treads on high,

4Where th' other dares not send his eye.

5 One nearer to God's altar trod,

6The other to the altar's God.

Notes

1] See Luke xviii.10-14.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1646); facs. edn. (Scolar Press, 1970). PR 3386 A75 1970 Robarts Library
First publication date: 1646
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 2RP 1.341.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/12

Form: Short Couplets

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