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Holy-cross Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO	A
ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON	B
IN ROME	C
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Now was come about Holy Cross Day	D
and now must my lord preach his first sermon	B
to the Jews as it was of old cared for in tine	E
merciful bowels of the Church that so to	A
speak a crumb at least from her conspicuous	F
table here in Rome should be though but	G
once yearly cast to the famishing dogs under trampled	H
and bespitten upon beneath the feet	I
of the guests And a moving sight in truth	J
this of so many of the besotted blind restif	K
and ready to perish Hebrews now maternally	L
brought nay for He saith Compel them	M
to come in' haled as it were by the head and	N
hair and against their obstinate hearts to partake	O
of the heavenly grace What awakening	P
what striving with tears what working of a	Q
yeasty conscience Nor was my lord wanting	P
to himself on so apt an occasion witness	F
the abundance of conversions which did incontinently	L
reward him though not to my	R
lord be altogether the glory '' Diary by the	Q
Bishop's Secretary	S
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What the Jews really said on thus being	P
driven to church was rather to this effect	T
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I	R
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Fee faw fum bubble and squeak	U
Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week	U
Rumble and tumble sleek and rough	K
Stinking and savoury simug and gruff	K
Take the church road for the bell's due chime	V
Gives us the summons 'tis sermon time	V
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II	R
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Bob here's Barnabas Job that's you	A
Up stumps Solomon bustling too	A
Shame man greedy beyond your years	W
To handsel the bishop's shaving shears	X
Fair play's a jewel Leave friends in the lurch	Y
Stand on a line ere you start for the church	Y
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III	R
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Higgledy piggledy packed we lie	R
Rats in a hamper swine in a stye	A
Wasps in a bottle frogs in a sieve	K
Worms in a carcase fleas in a sleeve	K
Hist square shoulders settle your thumbs	Z
And buzz for the bishop here he comes	Z
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IV	K
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Bow wow wow a bone for the dog	A2
I liken his Grace to an acorned hog	B2
What a boy at his side with the bloom of a lass	C2
To help and handle my lord's hour glass	C2
Didst ever behold so lithe a chine	E
His cheek hath laps like a fresh singed swine	E
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V	K
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Aaron's asleep shove hip to haunch	Y
Or somebody deal him a dig in the paunch	Y
Look at the purse with the tassel and knob	D2
And the gown with the angel and thingumbob	D2
What's he at quotha reading his text	E2
Now you've his curtsey and what comes next	E2
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VI	K
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See to our converts you doomed black dozen	E
No stealing away nor cog nor cozen	E
You five that were thieves deserve it fairly	K
You seven that were beggars will live less sparely	K
You took your turn and dipped in the hat	F2
Got fortune and fortune gets you mind that	F2
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VII	K
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Give your first groan compunction's at work	G2
And soft from a Jew you mount to a Turk	G2
Lo Micah the selfsame beard on chin	E
He was four times already converted in	E
Here's a knife clip quick it's a sign of grace	H2
Or he ruins us all with his hanging face	H2
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VIII	K
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Whom now is the bishop a leering at	F2
I know a point where his text falls pat	F2
I'll tell him to morrow a word just now	E
Went to my heart and made me vow	E
I meddle no more with the worst of trades	I2
Let somebody else pay his serenades	I2
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IX	I2
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Groan all together now whee hee hee	K
It's a work it's a work ah woe is me	K
It began when a herd of us picked and placed	J2
Were spurred through the Corso stripped to the waist	J2
Jew brutes with sweat and blood well spent	K2
To usher in worthily Christian Lent	K2
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X	I2
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It grew when the hangman entered our bounds	I2
Yelled pricked us out to his church like hounds	I2
It got to a pitch when the hand indeed	L2
Which gutted my purse would throttle my creed	L2
And it overflows when to even the odd	M2
Men I helped to their sins help me to their God	M2
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XI	K
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But now while the scapegoats leave our flock	N2
And the rest sit silent and count the clock	N2
Since forced to muse the appointed time	V
On these precious facts and truths sublime	V
Let us fitly ennploy it under our breath	O2
In saying Ben Ezra's Song of Death	O2
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XII	K
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For Rabbi Ben Ezra the night he died	P2
Called sons and sons' sons to his side	P2
And spoke This world has been harsh and strange	Q2
Something is wrong there needeth a change	Q2
But what or where at the last or first	R2
In one point only we sinned at worst	R2
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XIII	K
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The Lord will have mercy on Jacob yet	S2
And again in his border see Israel set	S2
When Judah beholds Jerusalem	T2
The stranger seed shall be joined to them	M
To Jacob's House shall the Gentiles cleave	K
So the Prophet saith and his sons believe	K
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XIV	K
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Ay the children of the chosen race	K
Shall carry and bring them to their place	K
In the land of the Lord shall lead the same	U2
Bondsmen and handmaids Who shall blame	U2
When the slaves enslave the oppressed ones o'er	V2
The oppressor triumph for evermore	W2
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XV	K
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God spoke and gave us the word to keep	X2
Bade never fold the hands nor sleep	X2
'Mid a faithless world at watch and ward	Y2
Till Christ at the end relieve our guard	Z2
By His servant Moses the watch was set	S2
Though near upon cock crow we keep it yet	S2
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XVI	K
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Thou if thou wast He who at mid watch came	U2
By the starlight naming a dubious name	U2
And if too heavy with sleep too rash	Y
With fear O Thou if that martyr gash	Y
Fell on Thee coming to take thine own	E
And we gave the Cross when we owed the Throne	E
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XVII	K
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Thou art the Judge We are bruised thus	K
But the Judgment over join sides with us	K
Thine too is the cause and not more thine	E
Than ours is the work of these dogs and swine	E
Whose life laughs through and spits at their creed	L2
Who maintain Thee in word and defy Thee in deed	L2
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XVIII	K
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We withstood Christ then Be mindful how	E
At least we withstand Barabbas now	E
Was our outrage sore But the worst we spared	A3
To have called these Christians had we dared	A3
Let defiance to them pay mistrust of Thee	K
And Rome make amends for Calvary	K
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XIX	K
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By the torture prolonged from age to age	B3
By the infamy Israel's heritage	C3
By the Ghetto's plague by the garb's disgrace	K
By the badge of shame by the felon's place	K
By the branding tool the bloody whip	D3
And the summons to Christian fellowship	D3
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XX	K
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We boast our proof that at least the Jew	A
Would wrest Christ's name from the Devil's crew	A
Thy face took never so deep a shade	E3
But we fought them in it God our aid	E3
A trophy to bear as we marchs thy band	F3
South East and on to the Pleasant Land ''	-
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Pope Gregory XVI abolished this bad	G3
business of the Sermon R B	K