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IDOLATRY
1
To love is to create, down here below,A god on earth; and for that god do even
More than his earthly worshipper can do
For the great God in Heaven.
2
But, since naught perfect is on earth, and noneEntirely good, the god on earth created
Is but a half-divine, half-devilish one;
A god half loved, half hated.
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Half loved, half hated, but so all adoredThat for its favour nothing seems a price
Too great; not even life lost and blood pour'd
In human sacrifice.
4
And all ungrudged, for this god's worshipt sake,His heart's blood drop by drop the adorer gives
His life's life hour by hour; nor shrinks to break
The heart of other lives.
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