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IN yonder red brick mansion tight and square	A
Just at the town's commencement lives the mayor	B
Some yards of shining gravel fenced with box	C
Lead to the painted portal where one knocks	C
There in the left hand parlour all in state	D
Sit he and she on either side the grate	D
But though their goods and chattels sound and new	E
Bespeak the owners very well to do	E
His worship's wig and morning suit betray	F
Slight indications of an humbler day	F
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That long low shop where still the name appears	G
Some doors below they kept for forty years	G
And there with various fortunes smooth and rough	H
They sold tobacco coffee tea and snuff	H
There labelled drawers display their spicy row	I
Clove mace and nutmeg from the ceiling low	I
Dangle long twelves and eights and slender rush	J
Mix'd with the varied forms of genus brush	J
Cask firkin bag and barrel crowd the floor	K
And piles of country cheeses guard the door	K
The frugal dames came in from far and near	L
To buy their ounces and their quarterns here	M
Hard was the toil the profits slow to count	N
And yet the mole hill was at last a mount	N
Those petty gains were hoarded day by day	F
With little cost for not a child had they	F
Till long proceeding on the saving plan	O
He found himself a warm fore handed man	O
And being now arrived at life's decline	P
Both he and she they formed the bold design	P
Although it touched their prudence to the quick	Q
To turn their savings into stone and brick	Q
How many an ounce of tea and ounce of snuff	H
There must have been consumed to make enough	H
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At length with paint and paper bright and gay	F
The box was finished and they went away	F
But when their faces were no longer seen	R
Amongst the canisters of black and green	R
Those well known faces all the country round	S
'Twas said that had they levelled to the ground	S
The two old walnut trees before the door	K
The customers would not have missed them more	K
Now like a pair of parrots in a cage	T
They live and civic honours crown their age	T
Thrice since the Whitsuntide they settled there	A
Seven years ago has he been chosen mayor	B
And now you'd scarcely know they were the same	U
Conscious he struts of power and wealth and fame	U
Proud in official dignity the dame	U
And extra stateliness of dress and mien	R
During the mayoralty is plainly seen	R
With nicer care bestowed to puff and pin	V
The august lappet that contains her chin	V
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Such is her life and like the wise and great	D
The mind has journeyed hand in hand with fate	D
Her thoughts unused to take a longer flight	W
Than from the left hand counter to the right	W
With little change are vacillating still	X
Between his worship's glory and the till	X
The few ideas moving slow and dull	Y
Across the sandy desert of her skull	Y
Still the same course must follow to and fro	I
As first they traversed three score years ago	I
From whence not all the world could turn them back	Z
Or lead them out upon another track	Z
What once was right or wrong or high or low	I
In her opinion always must be so	I
You might perhaps with reasons new and pat	A2
Have made Columbus think the world was flat	A2
There might be times of energy worn out	B2
When his own theory would Sir Isaac doubt	B2
But not the powers of argument combined	C2
Could make this dear good woman change her mind	C2
Or give her intellect the slightest clue	E
To that vast world of things she never knew	E
Were but her brain dissected it would show	I
Her stiff opinions fastened in a row	I
Ranged duly side by side without a gap	D2
Much like the plaiting on her Sunday cap	D2
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It is not worth our while but if it were	B
We all could undertake to laugh at her	B
Since vulgar prejudice the lowest kind	C2
Of course has full possession of her mind	C2
Here therefore let us leave her and inquire	E2
Wherein it differs as it rises higher	B
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As for the few who claim distinction here	M
The little gentry of our narrow sphere	L
Who occupy a safe enclosure made	F2
Completely inaccessible to trade	F2
Where 'tis a trespass on forbidden ground	S
If any foot plebeian pass the bound	S
Wide as the distance that we choose to make	G2
For pride precedence and for custom's sake	G2
Yet philosophic eyes though passing fine	P
Could scarcely ascertain the boundary line	P
So that if any should be found at all	H2
The difference must be infinitely small	H2
The powdered matron who for many a year	L
Has held her mimic routs and parties here	M
Exchanging just the counter scales and till	X
For cups of coffee scandal and quadrille	X
Could boast nor range of thought nor views of life	I2
Much more extended than our grocer's wife	I2
Although her notions may be better drest	S
They are but vulgar notions at the best	S
Mere petrifactions formed as time runs by	J2
Hard and unmalleable and dull and dry	J2
Ne'er to the test of truth and reason brought	S
Opinions made by habit not by thought	S
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Then let inquiry rise with sudden flight	S
To reason's utmost intellectual height	S
Where native powers with culture high combined	S
Present the choicest specimen of mind	S
Those minds that stand from all mankind aloof	K2
To smile at folly or dispense reproof	K2
Enlarged excursive reason soars away	F
And breaks the shackles that confine its sway	F
Their keen dissecting penetrating view	K2
Searches poor human nature through and through	K2
But while they notice all the forms absurd	S
That prejudice assumes among the herd	S
And every nicer variation see	L2
Theirs lies in thinking that themselves are free	L2
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There is a science reason cannot teach	M2
It lies beyond the depth her line can reach	M2
It is but taught by Heaven's imparted grace	N2
The feet of Jesus is the only place	N2
And they who mental riches largely share	A
But seldom stoop to seek their wisdom there	A
'Not many mighty' in His train appear	L
The simple poor adorn it best and here	M
While prejudice the mental sight impairs	O2
Of vulgar minds 'tis like a beam in theirs	O2
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Religion as in common course professed	S
Is first a question with them then a jest	S
Quick to discern the ludicrous and base	N2
With which blind votaries have deformed her face	N2
Errors abuses creeds imposed by man	O
Are undistinguished from the Scripture plan	O
Rome's proud ambition tyranny and fraud	S
The Christian standard's bloody deeds abroad	S
Priestcraft the same in every age and clime	U
From earliest record to the present time	U
Contending parties' never dying strife	K2
Each calling vengeance on the other's life	K2
The wretched hypocrite the wild extreme	U
Of blind fanatics the enthusiast's dream	U
The lives of those who bear the Christian name	U
Of this of all religion bears the blame	U
Though these are men who most reject its sway	F
And know as little what it means as they	F
There's not a wolf within the church's fold	S
But what the Bible has itself foretold	S
Yet these triumphantly are brought to view	K2
To prove that word of prophecy untrue	K2
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A cold acknowledgment of one Supreme	U
Avoids they argue every wide extreme	U
And this if made by Christian Turk or Jew	K2
Is all the same in His impartial view	K2
But all beyond their rational degree	L2
Of distant homage to the Deity	L2
A firm attachment to the truth revealed	S
Truth which with blood the Lord of glory sealed	S
Zeal to obey as well as to adore	K
Is vulgar prejudice and nothing more	K
Thus christian service spiritual and free	L2
They class with pleased and proud complacency	L2
With rights impure that pagan India boasts	P2
The blood dyed Koran and the idol hosts	P2
The cross perhaps held up with least respect	S
The hated symbol of the hated sect	S
That seal which marks it Heaven's appointed way	F
They caring nor to read nor to obey	F
That whoso names that name must first depart	S
From all iniquity of life and heart	S
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Or should the Christian code from all the rest	S
Be singled out and owned to be the best	S
The same keen shafts of ridicule are bent	S
Against its spirit and	S

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