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Before the Altar, bowed, he stands / With empty hands; / Upon it perfumed offerings burn / Wreathing with smoke the sacrificial urn.
Not one of all these has he given, / No flame of his has leapt to Heaven / Firesouled, vermilion-hearted, / Forked, and darted, / Consuming what a few spare pence / Have cheaply bought, to fling from hence / In idly-asked petition.