If Nature did not take delight in blood,
She would have made more easy ways to good.
We that are bound by vows and by promotion,
With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,
To teach belief in good and still devotion,
To preach of heaven's wonders and delights -
Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,
He finds the God there far unlike his books. (Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke)

If Nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. We that are bound by vows and by promotion, With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites, To teach belief in good and still devotion, To preach of heaven's wonders and delights - Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks, He finds the God there far unlike his books.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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