by Robert Herrick
'TIS not greatness they require
To be offcr'd up by fire ;
But 'tis sweetness that doth please
Those eternal essences.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 24.
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