"He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it."
— John Donne

January 1, 1970

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Divine Poems, "On the Sacrament"; attributed by many writers to Elizabeth I. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352.