Religion
Book IV, 3: On a Printing-House
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book IV
Religion
The world's a Printing-house: our words, our thoughts
Our deeds, are Characters of sev'rall sizes:
Each Soule is a Compos'ter; of whose saults
The Levits are Correctors: Heav'n revises;
Death is the common Press; from whence, being drivē,
W'are gathered Sheet by Sheet, & bound for Heaven.
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Quarles, Francis. “Book IV, 3: On a Printing-House.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/305/.
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