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Whene'er I read some savage tale	A
Of punishment devised	B
By tyrants in an olden day	C
When serfs were victimised	C
I reverently tell myself	D
'Thank God we're civilised '	E
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Thank God those idols grimmer far	F
Than gods of wood or stone	G
Unthinking Hate and brute Revenge	H
With all the seeds they've sown	G
Are cast to earth and Reason sits	I
With Mercy on the throne	G
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Calm Reason sits upon the throne	G
And fashions righteous laws	J
And in our blessed Age of Light	C
It ever bids us pause	J
And ere we plan the remedy	C
Unearth the Primal Cause	K
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It seeks not in a brutish rage	L
To flog the witless fool	M
The rack the pillory are gone	N
The witches' ducking stool	M
And Reason builds no gallows for	O
Heredity's poor tool	M
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'Reform lies not in punishment '	-
So saith the modern sage	L
'No remedy for evil holds	P
Blind Hate or Savage Rage	L
The whipping post the darkened cell	Q
Are of a darkre age '	-
	-
So Reason saith so Mercy saith	R
And having said withdraw	S
O brothers in this Noble Age	L
That there should be a flaw	S
And to the vacant throne there steps	T
The thing men call the Law	S
	-
The Law devised by kings long dead	C
And superstitious priests	U
Whose code considered but revenge	H
With bloody rites and feasts	U
The ancient Law bequeathed by men	V
Scarce risen from the beasts	U
	-
But e'en before such kings and priests	U
Infested our poor earth	R
Long ages ere some bleeding wretch	W
Excited their loud mirth	R
A thing half man with crooked brain	X
It chanced was given birth	R
	-
And lo this thing begat him sons	Y
And their sons sons again	V
And on and on till sturdier	Z
And cleaner grew the strain	X
Till in the breed for many an age	L
The taint had dormant lain	X
	-
For countless ages it mayhap	A2
The fatal taint had missed	C
Till in our day a babe was born	B2
With some strange mental twist	C
A thing for all men's sympathy	R
A foredoomed atavist	C
	-
And that he sinned against our code	C
And harmed a fellow man	C2
Lord knows what Nature is about	C
To work on such a plan	C2
Lo he is seized on by the Law	S
And placed beneath the ban	C2
	-
And what has reason now to say	C
Chief of our modern gods	D2
And Mercy 'Keep the man apart	C
But harm not such poor clods '	-
'Nay ' saith the Law 'we'll truss him up	A2
And scourge his back with rods '	-
	-
And so they take the last poor son	E2
Of all that tainted host	C
And try to exorcise the taint	C
There at the whipping post	C
This is the Age of Reason friends	F2
It is our proudest boast	C
	-
	-
And what of those great men on high	G2
Who said this thing should be	R
What of the Law's high officers	H2
Who voiced the brute decree	R
Shall such ones not become the mark	I2
For scornful obloquy	I2
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Nay gentle brothers blame them not	C
Blame is the whip of fools	J2
For here again we mark in them	K2
Heredity's poor tools	J2
The eld rings with their sires' demand	C
Calling for ducking stools	J2
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And so when all is said and done	E2
We end where we began	C2
We must leave Nature to proceed	C
With her age honored plan	C2
E'en I who speak may be the son	E2
Of some strange fashioned man	C2
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Because he had a twisted form	L2
A man of old was slain	X
They flog him in our Age of Light	C
For his poor twisted brain	X
And 'spite my words the chances are	F
They'll do the same again	V
	-
Still when I read some savage tale	A
Of punishment devised	C
By tyrants of an olden day	C
When serfs were victimised	C
I feel it in my heart to say	C
'Thank God we're civilised '	-

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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