God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chap… - William Drummond of Hawthornden

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God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh’s Saint Gyles.

William Drummond of Hawthornden

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William Drummond of Hawthornden (13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649) was a Scottish poet.

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