- The Altar
- by George Herbert
- Exported from Wikisource on 02/07/20
- For works with similar titles, see Altar.
- A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears,
- Made of a heart, and cemented with tears:
- Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;
- No workman's tool hath touched the same.
- A Heart alone
- Is such a stone,
- As nothing but
- Thy pow'r doth cut.
- Wherefore each part
- Of my hard heart
- Meets in this frame,
- To praise thy name:
- That if I chance to hold my peace,
- These stones to praise thee may not cease.
- O let thy blessed Sacrifice be mine,
- And sanctify this Altar to be thine.
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