and the hours after that: Footnote to All Prayers
by: C. S. Lewis
from: Poems
He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow
When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou,
And dream of Pheidian fancies and embrace in heart
Symbols (I know) which cannot be the thing Thou art.
Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blaspheme
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(Source: bookofprayer)