TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY - Stephen Crane Poems

 
 

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TWO WENT UP INTO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY

  Two went to pray? O rather say
One went to brag, th' other to pray:

  One stands up close and treads on high,
Where th' other dares not send his eye.

  One nearer to God's altar trod,
The other to the altar's God.