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Rh the mot fervent devotion, two lines of his own verion of :

In the beautiful fervor of its devotion, Rocommon's excels all other tranlations, but its vere is not that of the

Crahaw, the contemporary of Herbert, and friend of Cowley, is the author of this verion. It is the oldet in our language (1646), though there is a weak paraphrae by Drummond of Hawthornden, beginning:

No tranlation urpaes Crahaw's in trength, but the form of his tanza and the meaure of his vere are leat like thoe of the original.