DEVOTION MAKES THE DEITY.
by Robert Herrick


WHO forms a godhead out of gold or stone
Makes not a god, but he that prays to one.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 147.


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