# Quote — George Herbert, The Temple

> A broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears,
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> Made of a heart, and cemented with tears;
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> Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;
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> No workman's tool hath touch'd the same.
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> A HEART alone
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> Is such a stone
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> As nothing but
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> Thy pow'r doth cut.
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> Wherefore each part
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> Of my hard heart
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> Meets in this frame,
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> To praise thy name.
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> That if I chance to hold my peace,
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> These stones to praise thee may not cease.
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> O let thy blessed SACRIFICE be mine,
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> And sanctify this ALTAR to be thine.

- Author: [George Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert.md)
- Book: [The Temple](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple.md)
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> Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
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> Could have recovered greenness?

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> Whereas if the heart be moved,
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> Although the verse be somewhat scant,
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> God doth supply the want.

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> Thy rope of sands,
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> Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee
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> Good cable, to enforce and draw,
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> And be thy law,
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> While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/thy-rope-of-sands.md)