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Cheerfulness In Charity; Or, the Sweet Sacrifice

by Robert Herrick, 1648

’Tis not a thousand bullocks’ thighs
Can please those heav’nly deities,
If the vower don’t express
In his offering cheerfulness.

Published in Hesperides
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