Religion
R. C.
From Poems, ed. O. Gilchrist (1807)
Religion
When too much zeal doth fire devotion,
Love is not love, but superstition:
Even so in civil duties, when we come
Too oft, we are not kind, but troublesome.
Yet as the first is not idolatry,
So is the last but grieved industry:
And such was mine, whose strife to honour you
By overplus, hath rob’d you of your due.
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Corbet, Richard. “R. C.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/corbet/29/.
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