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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1093, Cosimo, Inc.
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.