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A WANDERER Wilson from my native land	A
Remote O Rae from godliness and thee	B
Where rolls between us the eternal sea	B
Besides some furlongs of a foreign sand	A
Beyond the broadest Scotch of London Wall	C
Beyond the loudest Saint that has a call	C
Across the wavy waste between us stretch'd	D
A friendly missive warns me of a stricture	E
Wherein my likeness you have darkly etch'd	D
And though I have not seen the shadow sketch'd	D
Thus I remark prophetic on the picture	E
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I guess the features in a line to paint	F
Their moral ugliness I'm not a saint	F
Not one of those self constituted saints	G
Quacks not physicians in the cure of souls	H
Censors who sniff out mortal taints	G
And call the devil over his own coals	H
Those pseudo Privy Councillors of God	I
Who write down judgments with a pen hard nibb'd	I
Ushers of Beelzebub's Black Rod	I
Commending sinners not to ice thick ribb'd	I
But endless flames to scorch them up like flax	J
Yet sure of heav'n themselves as if they'd cribb'd	I
Th' impression of St Peter's keys in wax	J
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Of such a character no single trace	K
Exists I know in my fictitious face	K
There wants a certain cast about the eye	L
A certain lifting of the nose's tip	M
A certain curling of the nether lip	M
In scorn of all that is beneath the sky	L
In brief it is an aspect deleterious	N
A face decidedly not serious	N
A face profane that would not do at all	C
To make a face at Exeter Hall	C
That Hall where bigots rant and cant and pray	O
And laud each other face to face	K
Till ev'ry farthing candle ray	O
Conceives itself a great gas light of grace	K
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Well be the graceless lineaments confest	I
I do enjoy this bounteous beauteous earth	P
And dote upon a jest	I
'Within the limits of becoming mirth'	P
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull	Q
Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious	N
Nor study in my sanctum supercilious	N
To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull	Q
I pray for grace repent each sinful act	I
Peruse but underneath the rose my Bible	R
And love my neighbour far too well in fact	I
To call and twit him with a godly tract	I
That's turn'd by application to a libel	R
My heart ferments not with the bigot's leaven	S
All creeds I view with toleration thorough	T
And have a horror of regarding heaven	S
As anybody's rotten borough	T
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What else no part I take in party fray	O
With troops from Billingsgate's slang whanging	L
tartars	U
I fear no Pope and let great Ernest play	O
At Fox and Goose with Foxs' Martyrs	U
I own I laugh at over righteous men	V
I own I shake my sides at ranters	U
And treat sham Abr'am saints with wicked banters	U
I even own that there are times but then	V
It's when I've got my wine I say d canters	U
	-
I've no ambition to enact the spy	L
On fellow souls a Spiritual Pry	L
'Tis said that people ought to guard their noses	U
Who thrust them into matters none of theirs	U
And tho' no delicacy discomposes	U
Your Saint yet I consider faith and pray'rs	U
Amongst the privatest of men's affairs	U
	-
I do not hash the Gospel in my books	U
And thus upon the public mind intrude it	I
As if I thought like Otaheitan cooks	U
No food was fit to eat till I had chewed it	I
On Bible stilts I don't affect to stalk	L
Nor lard with Scripture my familiar talk	L
For man may pious texts repeat	I
And yet religion have no inward seat	I
'Tis not so plain as the old Hill of Howth	P
A man has got his belly full of meat	I
Because he talks with victuals in his mouth	P
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Mere verbiage it is not worth a carrot	I
Why Socrates or Plato where's the odds	U
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods	U
And made a Polly theist of a Parrot	I
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A mere professor spite of all his cant is	U
Not a whit better than a Mantis	U
An insect of what clime I can't determine	S
That lifts its paws most parson like and thence	U
By simple savages thro' sheer pretence	U
Is reckon'd quite a saint amongst the vermin	W
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But where's the reverence or where the nous	U
To ride on one's religion thro' the lobby	B
Whether a stalking horse or hobby	B
To show its pious paces to 'the house'	U
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I honestly confess that I would hinder	E
The Scottish member's legislative rigs	U
That spiritual Pinder	E
Who looks on erring souls as straying pigs	U
That must be lash'd by law wherever found	I
And driv'n to church as to the parish pound	I
I do confess without reserve or wheedle	O
I view that grovelling idea as one	S
Worthy some parish clerk's ambitious son	S
A charity boy who longs to be a beadle	O
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On such a vital topic sure 'tis odd	I
How much a man can differ from his neighbour	E
One wishes worship freely giv'n to God	I
Another wants to make it statute labour	E
The broad distinction in a line to draw	E
As means to lead us to the skies above	X
You say Sir Andrew and his love of law	E
And I the Saviour with his law of love	X
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Spontaneously to God should tend the soul	O
Like the magnetic needle to the Pole	O
But what were that intrinsic virtue worth	P
Suppose some fellow with more zeal than	Y
knowledge	Z
Fresh from St Andrew's College	A2
Should nail the conscious needle to the north	P
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I do confess that I abhor and shrink	L
From schemes with a religious willy nilly	O
That frown upon St Giles's sins but blink	L
The peccadilloes of all Piccadilly	O
My soul revolts at such a bare hypocrisy	O
And will not dare not fancy in accord	I
The Lord of Hosts with an Exclusive Lord	I
Of this world's aristocracy	O
It will not own a notion so unholy	O
As thinking that the rich by easy trips	U
May go to heav'n whereas the poor and lowly	O
Must work their passage as they do in ships	U
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One place there is beneath the burial sod	I
Where all mankind are equalized by death	P
Another place there is the Fane of God	I
Where all are equal who draw living breath	P
Juggle who will elsewhere with his own soul	O
Playing the Judas with a temporal dole	O
He who can come beneath that awful cope	B2
In the dread presence of a Maker just	I
Who metes to ev'ry pinch of human dust	I
One even measure of immortal hope	B2
He who can stand within that holy door	E
With soul unbow'd by that pure spirit level	O
And frame unequal laws for rich and poor	E
Might sit for Hell and represent the Devil	O
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Such are the solemn sentiments O Rae	E
In your last Journey Work perchance you ravage	A2
Seeming but in more courtly terms to say	E
I'm but a heedless creedless godless savage	Z
A very Guy deserving fire and faggots	E
A Scoffer always on the grin	W
And sadly given to the mortal sin	W
Of liking Maw worms less than merry maggots	E
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The humble records of my life to search	C2
I have not herded with mere pagan beasts	E
But sometimes I have 'sat at good men's feasts '	-
And I have been 'where bells have knoll'd to	I
church '	-
Dear bells how sweet the sounds of village bells	E
When on the undulating air they swim	D2
Now loud as welcomes faint now as farewells	E
And trembling all about the breezy dells	E
As flutter'd by the wings of Cherubim	D2
Meanwhile the bees are chanting a low hymn	D2
And lost to sight th' ecstatic lark above	X
Sings like a soul beatified of love	X
With now and then the coo of the wild pigeon	S
O Pagans Heathens Infidels and Doubters	E
If such sweet sounds can't woo you to religion	S
Will the harsh voices of church cads and touters	E
	-
A man may cry 'Church Church ' at ev'ry word	I
With no more piety than other people	O
A daw's not reckon'd a religious bird	I
Because it keeps a cawing from a steeple	O
The Temple is a good a holy place	E
But quacking only gives it an ill savour	E
While saintly mountebanks the porch disgrace	E
And bring religion's self into disfavour	E
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Behold yon servitor of God and Mammon	S
Who binding up his Bible with his Ledger	E
Blends Gospel texts with trading gammon	S
A black leg saint a spiritual hedger	E
Who backs his rigid Sabbath so to speak	L
Against the wicked remnant of the week	L
A saving bet against his sinful bias	E
'Rogue that I am ' he whispers to himself	E2
'I lie I cheat do anything for pelf	E2
But who on earth can say I am not pious '	-
	-
In proof how over righteousness re acts	E
Accept an anecdote well based on facts	E
One Sunday morning at the day don't fret	I
In riding with a friend to	I