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Since Reverend Doctors now declare	A
That clerks and people must prepare	A
To doubt if Adam ever were	B
To hold the flood a local scare	A
To argue though the stolid stare	A
That everything had happened ere	A
The prophets to its happening sware	A
That David was no giant slayer	A
Nor one to call a God obeyer	A
In certain details we could spare	A
But rather was a debonair	A
Shrewd bandit skilled as banjo player	A
That Solomon sang the fleshly Fair	A
And gave the Church no thought whate'er	A
That Esther with her royal wear	A
And Mordecai the son of Jair	A
And Joshua's triumphs Job's despair	A
And Balaam's ass's bitter blare	A
Nebuchadnezzar's furnace flare	A
And Daniel and the den affair	A
And other stories rich and rare	A
Were writ to make old doctrine wear	A
Something of a romantic air	A
That the Nain widow's only heir	A
And Lazarus with cadaverous glare	A
As done in oils by Piombo's care	A
Did not return from Sheol's lair	A
That Jael set a fiendish snare	A
That Pontius Pilate acted square	A
That never a sword cut Malchus' ear	A
And but for shame I must forbear	A
That did not reappear	A
Since thus they hint nor turn a hair	A
All churchgoing will I forswear	A
And sit on Sundays in my chair	A
And read that moderate man Voltaire	A

Thomas Hardy

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