Ode To Rae Wilson, Esq. To The Editor Of The Athenëum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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MY DEAR SIR The following Ode was written anticipating the tone of	A
some strictures on my writings by the gentleman to whom it is	B
addressed I have not seen his book but I know by hearsay that some	C
of my verses are characterized as profaneness and ribaldry citing	D
in proof the description of a certain sow from whose jaw a cabbage	E
sprout	F
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Protruded as the dove so staunch	G
For peace supports an olive branch	H
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If the printed works of my Censor had not prepared me for any	I
misapplication of types I should have been surprised by this	J
misapprehension of one of the commonest emblems In some cases the	K
dove unquestionably stands for the Divine Spirit but the same bird	L
is also a lay representative of the peace of this world and as such	M
has figured time out of mind in allegorical pictures The sense in	N
which it was used by me is plain from the context at least it	O
would be plain to any one but a fisher for faults predisposed to	P
carp at some things to dab at others and to flounder in all But I	Q
am possibly in error It is the female swine perhaps that is	B
profaned in the eyes of the Oriental tourist Men find strange ways	R
of marking their intolerance and the spirit is certainly strong	S
enough in Mr W 's works to set up a creature as sacred in sheer	T
opposition to the Mussulman with whom she is a beast of abomination	U
It would only be going the whole sow I am dear Sir yours very truly	I
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THOS HOOD	V
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Close close your eyes with holy dread	W
And weave a circle round him thrice	X
For he on honey dew hath fed	W
And drunk the milk of Paradise COLERIDGE	Y
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It's very hard them kind of men	Z
Won't let a body be Old Ballad	A2
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A wanderer Wilson from my native land	B2
Remote O Rae from godliness and thee	I
Where rolls between us the eternal sea	I
Besides some furlongs of a foreign sand	B2
Beyond the broadest Scotch of London Wall	C2
Beyond the loudest Saint that has a call	C2
Across the wavy waste between us stretch'd	D2
A friendly missive warns me of a stricture	E2
Wherein my likeness you have darkly etch'd	D2
And though I have not seen the shadow sketch'd	D2
Thus I remark prophetic on the picture	E2
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I guess the features in a line to paint	F2
Their moral ugliness I'm not a saint	F2
Not one of those self constituted saints	G2
Quacks not physicians in the cure of souls	H2
Censors who sniff out mortal taints	G2
And call the devil over his own coals	H2
Those pseudo Privy Councillors of God	I2
Who write down judgments with a pen hard nibb'd	I2
Ushers of Beelzebub's Black Rod	I2
Commending sinners not to ice thick ribb'd	I2
But endless flames to scorch them up like flax	J2
Yet sure of heav'n themselves as if they'd cribb'd	I2
Th' impression of St Peter's keys in wax	J2
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Of such a character no single trace	K2
Exists I know in my fictitious face	K2
There wants a certain cast about the eye	Q
A certain lifting of the nose's tip	L2
A certain curling of the nether lip	L2
In scorn of all that is beneath the sky	Q
In brief it is an aspect deleterious	M2
A face decidedly not serious	M2
A face profane that would not do at all	C2
To make a face at Exeter Hall	C2
That Hall where bigots rant and cant and pray	N2
And laud each other face to face	K2
Till ev'ry farthing candle ray	N2
Conceives itself a great gas light of grace	K2
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Well be the graceless lineaments confest	I2
I do enjoy this bounteous beauteous earth	O2
And dote upon a jest	I2
Within the limits of becoming mirth	O2
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull	P2
Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious	M2
Nor study in my sanctum supercilious	M2
To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull	P2
I pray for grace repent each sinful act	I2
Peruse but underneath the rose my Bible	Q2
And love my neighbor far too well in fact	I2
To call and twit him with a godly tract	I2
That's turn'd by application to a libel	Q2
My heart ferments not with the bigot's leaven	U
All creeds I view with toleration thorough	R2
And have a horror of regarding heaven	U
As anybody's rotten borough	R2
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What else no part I take in party fray	N2
With troops from Billingsgate's slang whanging tartars	S2
I fear no Pope and let great Ernest play	N2
At Fox and Goose with Foxs' Martyrs	S2
I own I laugh at over righteous men	Z
I own I shake my sides at ranters	S2
And treat sham Abr'am saints with wicked banters	S2
I even own that there are times but then	Z
It's when I've got my wine I say d canters	S2
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I've no ambition to enact the spy	Q
On fellow souls a Spiritual Pry	Q
'Tis said that people ought to guard their noses	S2
Who thrust them into matters none of theirs	S2
And tho' no delicacy discomposes	S2
Your Saint yet I consider faith and pray'rs	S2
Amongst the privatest of men's affairs	S2
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I do not hash the Gospel in my books	S2
And thus upon the public mind intrude it	I2
As if I thought like Otaheitan cooks	S2
No food was fit to eat till I had chewed it	I2
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On Bible stilts I don't affect to stalk	T2
Nor lard with Scripture my familiar talk	T2
For man may pious texts repeat	I2
And yet religion have no inward seat	I2
'Tis not so plain as the old Hill of Howth	O2
A man has got his belly full of meat	I2
Because he talks with victuals in his mouth	O2
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Mere verbiage it is not worth a carrot	I2
Why Socrates or Plato where's the odds	S2
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods	S2
And made a Polly theist of a Parrot	I2
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A mere professor spite of all his cant is	S2
Not a whit better than a Mantis	S2
An insect of what clime I can't determine	U
That lifts its paws most parson like and thence	S2
By simple savages thro' sheer pretence	S2
Is reckon'd quite a saint amongst the vermin	N
But where's the reverence or where the nous	S2
To ride on one's religion thro' the lobby	I
Whether a stalking horse or hobby	I
To show its pious paces to the house	S2
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I honestly confess that I would hinder	E2
The Scottish member's legislative rigs	S2
That spiritual Pinder	E2
Who looks on erring souls as straying pigs	S2
That must be lash'd by law wherever found	I2
And driv'n to church as to the parish pound	I2
I do confess without reserve or wheedle	N2
I view that grovelling idea as one	U
Worthy some parish clerk's ambitious son	U
A charity boy who longs to be a beadle	N2
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On such a vital topic sure 'tis odd	I2
How much a man can differ from his neighbor	E2
One wishes worship freely giv'n to God	I2
Another wants to make it statute labor	E2
The broad distinction in a line to draw	U2
As means to lead us to the skies above	A
You say Sir Andrew and his love of law	U2
And I the Saviour with his law of love	A
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Spontaneously to God should tend the soul	N2
Like the magnetic needle to the Pole	N2
But what were that intrinsic virtue worth	O2
Suppose some fellow with more zeal than knowledge	E
Fresh from St Andrew's College	Y
Should nail the conscious needle to the north	O2
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I do confess that I abhor and shrink	V2
From schemes with a religious willy nilly	N2
That frown upon St Giles's sins but blink	V2
The peccadilloes of all Piccadilly	N2
My soul revolts at such a bare hypocrisy	N2
And will not dare not fancy in accord	I2
The Lord of Hosts with an Exclusive Lord	I2
Of this world's aristocracy	N2
It will not own a notion so unholy	N2
As thinking that the rich by easy trips	S2
May go to heav'n whereas the poor and lowly	N2
Must work their passage as they do in ships	S2
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One place there is beneath the burial sod	I2
Where all mankind are equalized by death	O2
Another place there is the Fane of God	I2
Where all are equal who draw living breath	O2
Juggle who will elsewhere with his own soul	N2
Playing the Judas with a temporal dole	N2
He who can come beneath that awful cope	W2
In the dread presence of a Maker just	I2
Who metes to ev'ry pinch of human dust	I2
One even measure of immortal hope	W2
He who can stand within that holy door	X2
With soul unbow'd by that pure spirit level	N2
And frame unequal laws for rich and poor	Y2
Might sit for Hell and represent the Devil	N2
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Such are the solemn sentiments O Rae	N2
In your last Journey Work perchance you ravage	Y
Seeming but in more courtly terms to say	N2
I'm but a heedless creedless godless savage	E
A very Guy deserving fire and faggots	N2
A Scoffer always on the grin	N
And sadly given to the mortal sin	N
Of liking Maw worms less than merry maggots	N2
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The humble records of my life to search	Z2
I have not herded with mere pagan beasts	N2
But sometimes I have sat at good men's feasts	N2
And I have been where bells have knoll'd to church	Z2
Dear bells how sweet the sounds of village bells	N2
When on the undulating air they swim	A3
Now loud as welcomes faint now as farewells	N2
And trembling all about the breezy dells	N2
As flutter'd by the wings of Cherubim	A3
Meanwhile the bees are chanting a low hymn	A3
And lost to sight th' ecstatic lark above	A
Sings like a soul beatified of love	A
With now and then the coo of the wild pigeon	U
O Pagans Heathens Infidels and Doubters	N2
If such sweet sounds can't woo you to religion	U
Will the harsh voices of church cads and touters	N2
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A man may cry Church Church at ev'ry word	I2
With no more piety than other people	N2
A daw's not reckon'd a religious bird	I2
Because it keeps a cawing from a steeple	N2
The Temple is a good a holy place	N2
But quacking only gives it an ill savor	E2
While saintly mountebanks the porch disgrace	N2
And bring religion's self into disfavor	E2
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Behold yon servitor of God and Mammon	U
Who binding up his Bible with his Ledger	E2
Blends Gospel texts with trading gammon	U
A black leg saint a spiritual hedger	E2
Who backs his rigid Sabbath so to speak	B3
Against the wicked remnant of the week	B3
A saving bet against his sinful bias	N2
Rogue that I am he whispers to himself	C3
I lie I cheat do anything for pelf	C3
But who on earth can say I am not pious	N2
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In proof how over righteousness re acts	N2
Accept an anecdote well based on facts	N2
One Sunday morning at the day don't fret	I2
In riding with a friend to Ponder's End	I2
Outside the stage we happened to commend	I2
A certain mansion that we saw To Let	I2
Ay cried our coachman with our talk to grapple	N2
You're right no house along the road comes nigh it	I2
'Twas built by the same man as built yon chapel	N2
And master wanted once to buy it	I2
But t'other driv the bargain much too hard	I2
He ax'd sure ly a sum purdigious	N2
But being so particular religious	N2
Why that you see put master on his guard	I2
Church is a little heav'n below	N2
I have been there and still would go	N2
Yet I am none of those who think it odd	I2
A man can pray unbidden from the cassock	D3
And passing by the customary hassock	D3
Kneel down remote upon the simple sod	I2
And sue in form pauperis to God	I2
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As for the rest intolerant to none	U
Whatever shape the pious rite may bear	E3
Ev'n the poor Pagan's homage to the Sun	U
I would not harshly scorn lest even there	E3
I spurn'd some elements of Christian pray'r	F3
An aim tho' erring at a world ayont	I2
Acknowledgment of good of man's futility	I2
A sense of need and weakness and indeed	I2
That very thing so many Christians want	I2
Humility	I2
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Such unto Papists Jews or turban'd Turks	N2
Such is my spirit I don't mean my wraith	O2
Such may it please you is my humble faith	O2
I know full well you do not like my works	N2
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I have not sought 'tis true the Holy Land	I2
As full of texts as Cuddie Headrigg's mother	E2
The Bible in one hand	I2
And my own commonplace book in the other	E2
But you have been to Palestine alas	N2
Some minds improve by travel others rather	E2
Resemble copper wire or brass	N2
Which gets the narrower by going farther	E2
Worthless are all such Pilgrimages very	I2
If Palmers at the Holy Tomb contrive	C3
The human heats and rancor to revive	C3
That at the Sepulchre they ought to bury	I2
A sorry sight it is to rest the eye on	U
To see a Christian creature graze at Sion	U
Then homeward of the saintly pasture full	N2
Rush bellowing and breathing fire and smoke	D3
At crippled Papistry to butt and poke	D3
Exactly as a skittish Scottish bull	N2
Hunts an old woman in a scarlet cloak	D3
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Why leave a serious moral pious home	A3
Scotland renown'd for sanctity of old	I2
Far distant Catholics to rate and scold	I2
For doing as the Romans do at Rome	A3
With such a bristling spirit wherefore quit	I2
The Land of Cakes for any land of wafers	N2
About the graceless images to flit	I2
And buzz and chafe importunate as chafers	N2
Longing to carve the carvers to Scotch collops	N2
People who hold such absolute opinions	N2
Should stay at home in Protestant dominions	N2
Not travel like male Mrs Trollopes	N2
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Gifted with noble tendency to climb	A3
Yet weak at the same time	A3
Faith is a kind of parasitic plant	I2
That grasps the nearest stem with tendril rings	N2
And as the climate and the soil may grant	I2
So is the sort of tree to which it clings	N2
Consider then before like Hurlothrumbo	A3
You aim your club at any creed on earth	O2
That by the simple accident of birth	O2
You might have been High Priest to Mumbo Jumbo	A3
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For me thro' heathen ignorance perchance	N2
Not having knelt in Palestine I feel	N2
None of that griffinish excess of zeal	N2
Some travellers would blaze with here in France	N2
Dolls I can see in virgin like array	N2
Nor for a scuffle with the idols hanker	E2
Like crazy Quixote at the puppet's play	N2
If their offence be rank should mine be rancor	E2
Mild light and by degrees should be the plan	U
To cure the dark and erring mind	I2
But who would rush at a benighted man	U
And give him two black eyes for being blind	I2
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Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop	G3
Around a canker'd stem should twine	U
What Kentish boor would tear away the prop	G3
So roughly as to wound nay kill the bine	U
The images 'tis true are strangely dress'd	I2
With gauds and toys extremely out of season	U
The carving nothing of the very best	I2
The whole repugnant to the eye of reason	U
Shocking to Taste and to Fine Arts a treason	U
Yet ne'er o'erlook in bigotry of sect	I2
One truly Catholic one common form	A3
At which uncheck'd	I2
All Christian hearts may kindle or keep warm	A3
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Say was it to my spirit's gain or loss	N2
One bright and balmy morning as I went	I2
From Liege's lovely environs to Ghent	I2
If hard by the wayside I found a cross	N2
That made me breathe a pray'r upon the spot	I2
While Nature of herself as if to trace	N2
The emblem's use had trail'd around its base	N2
The blue significant Forget me not	I2
Methought the claims of Charity to urge	H3
More forcibly along with Faith and Hope	W2
The pious choice had pitched upon the verge	H3
Of a delicious slope	W2
Giving the eye much variegated scope	W2
Look round it whisper'd on that prospect rare	E3
Those vales so verdant and those hills so blue	N2
Enjoy the sunny world so fresh and fair	E3
But how the simple legend pierced me thro'	E3
PRIEZ POUR LES MALHEUREUX	N2
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With sweet kind natures as in honey'd cells	N2
Religion lives and feels herself at home	A3
But only on a formal visit dwells	N2
Where wasps instead of bees have formed the comb	A3
Shun pride O Rae whatever sort beside	I2
You take in lieu shun spiritual pride	I2
A pride there is of rank a pride of birth	O2
A pride of learning and a pride of purse	N2
A London pride in short there be on earth	O2
A host of prides some better and some worse	N2
But of all prides since Lucifer's attaint	I2
The proudest swells a self elected Saint	I2
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To picture that cold pride so harsh and hard	I2
Fancy a peacock in a poultry yard	I2
Behold him in conceited circles sail	N2
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff	C3
In all his pomp of pageantry as if	C3
He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail	N2
As for the humble breed retain'd by man	U
He scorns the whole domestic clan	U
He bows he bridles	N2
He wheels he sidles	N2
At last with stately dodgings in a corner	E3
He pens a simple russet hen to scorn her	E3
Full in the blaze of his resplendent fan	U
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Look here he cries to give him words	N2
Thou feather'd clay thou scum of birds	N2
Flirting the rustling plumage in her eyes	N2
Look here thou vile predestined sinner	E3
Doom'd to be roasted for a dinner	E3
Behold those lovely variegated dyes	N2
These are the rainbow colors of the skies	N2
That Heav'n has shed upon me con amore	E3
A Bird of Paradise a pretty story	E3
I am that Saintly Fowl thou paltry chick	D3
Look at my crown of glory	E3
Thou dingy dirty drabbled draggled jill	N2
And off goes Partlet wriggling from a kick	D3
With bleeding scalp laid open by his bill	N2
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That little simile exactly paints	N2
How sinners are despised by saints	N2
By saints the Hypocrites that ope heav'n's door	E3
Obsequious to the sinful man of riches	N2
But put the wicked naked barelegg'd poor	E3
In parish stocks instead of breeches	N2
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The Saints the Bigots that in public spout	I2
Spread phosphorus of zeal on scraps of fustian	U
And go like walking Lucifers about	I2
Mere living bundles of combustion	U
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The Saints the aping Fanatics that talk	D3
All cant and rant and rhapsodies high flown	U
That bid you baulk	D3
A Sunday walk	D3
And shun God's work as you should shun your own	U
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The Saints the Formalists the extra pious	N2
Who think the mortal husk can save the soul	N2
By trundling with a mere mechanic bias	N2
To church just like a lignum vit bowl	N2
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The Saints the Pharisees whose beadle stands	N2
Beside a stern coercive kirk	D3
A piece of human mason work	D3
Calling all sermons contrabands	N2
In that great Temple that's not made with hands	N2
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Thrice blessed rather is the man with whom	A3
The gracious prodigality of nature	E3
The balm the bliss the beauty and the bloom	A3
The bounteous providence in ev'ry feature	E3
Recall the good Creator to his creature	E3
Making all earth a fane all heav'n its dome	A3
To his tuned spirit the wild heather bells	N2
Ring Sabbath knells	N2
The jubilate of the soaring lark	D3
Is chant of clerk	D3
For choir the thrush and the gregarious linnet	I2
The sod's a cushion for his pious want	I2
And consecrated by the heav'n within it	I2
The sky blue pool a font	I2
Each cloud capped mountain is a holy altar	E3
An organ breathes in every grove	C3
And the full heart's a Psalter	E3
Rich in deep hymns of gratitude and love	C3
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Sufficiently by stern necessitarians	N2
Poor Nature with her face begrimed by dust	I2
Is stoked coked smoked and almost choked but must	I2
Religion have its own Utilitarians	N2
Labell'd with evangelical phylacteries	N2
To make the road to heav'n a railway trust	I2
And churches that's the naked fact mere factories	N2
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Oh simply open wide the Temple door	E3
And let the solemn swelling organ greet	I2
With Voluntaries meet	I2
The willing advent of the rich and poor	E3
And while to God the loud Hosannas soar	E3
With rich vibrations from the vocal throng	D3
From quiet shades that to the woods belong	D3
And brooks with music of their own	U
Voices may come to swell the choral song	D3
With notes of praise they learned in musings lone	U
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How strange it is while on all vital questions	N2
That occupy the House and public mind	I2
We always meet with some humane suggestions	N2
Of gentle measures of a healing kind	I2
Instead of harsh severity and vigor	E3
The Saint alone his preference retains	N2
For bills of penalties and pains	N2
And marks his narrow code with legal rigor	E3
Why shun as worthless of affiliation	U
What men of all political persuasion	U
Extol and even use upon occasion	U
That Christian principle Conciliation	U
But possibly the men who make such fuss	N2
With Sunday pippins and old Trots infirm	A3
Attach some other meaning to the term	A3
As thus	N2
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One market morning in my usual rambles	N2
Passing along Whitechapel's ancient shambles	N2
Where meat was hung in many a joint and quarter	E3
I had to halt awhile like other folks	N2
To let a killing butcher coax	N2
A score of lambs and fatted sheep to slaughter	E3
A sturdy man he looke'd to fell an ox	N2
Bull fronted ruddy with a formal streak	D3
Of well greased hair down either cheek	D3
As if he dee dash dee'd some other flocks	N2
Beside those woolly headed stubborn blocks	N2
That stood before him in vexatious huddle	N2
Poor little lambs with bleating wethers group'd	I2
While now and then a thirsty creature stoop'd	I2
And meekly snuff'd but did not taste the puddle	N2
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Fierce bark'd the dog and many a blow was dealt	I2
That loin and chump and scrag and saddle felt	I2
Yet still that fatal step they all declined it	I2
And shunn'd the tainted door as if they smelt	I2
Onions mint sauce and lemon juice behind it	I2
At last there came a pause of brutal force	N2
The cur was silent for his jaws were full	N2
Of tangled locks of tarry wool	N2
The man had whoop'd and holloed till dead hoarse	N2
The time was ripe for mild expostulation	U
And thus it stammer'd from a stander by	Q
Zounds my good fellow it quite makes me why	Q
It really my dear fellow do just try Conciliation	U
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Stringing his nerves like flint	I2
The sturdy butcher seized upon the hint	I2
At least he seized upon the foremost wether	E3
And hugg'd and lugg'd and tugg'd him neck and crop	G3
Just nolens volens thro' the open shop	G3
If tails come off he didn't care a feather	E3
Then walking to the door and smiling grim	A3
He rubb'd his forehead and his sleeve together	E3
There I have conciliated him	A3
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Again good humoredly to end our quarrel	N2
Good humor should prevail	N2
I'll fit you with a tale	N2
Whereto is tied a moral	N2
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Once on a time a certain English lass	N2
Was seized with symptoms of such deep decline	U
Cough hectic flushes ev'ry evil sign	U
That as their wont is at such desperate pass	N2
The Doctors gave her over to an ass	N2
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Accordingly the grisly Shade to bilk	D3
Each morn the patient quaff'd a frothy bowl	N2
Of asinine new milk	D3
Robbing a shaggy suckling of a foal	N2
Which got proportionably spare and skinny	U
Meanwhile the neighbors cried Poor Mary Ann	U
She can't get over it she never can	U
When lo to prove each prophet was a ninny	U
The one that died was the poor wet nurse Jenny	U
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To aggravate the case	N2
There were but two grown donkeys in the place	N2
And most unluckily for Eve's sick daughter	E3
The other long ear'd creature was a male	N2
Who never in his life had given a pail	N2
Of milk or even chalk and water	E3
No matter at the usual hour of eight	I2
Down trots a donkey to the wicket gate	I2
With Mister Simon Gubbins on his back	D3
Your sarvant Miss a worry spring like day	I2
Bad time for hasses tho' good lack good lack	D3
Jenny be dead Miss but I've brought ye Jack	D3
He doesn't give no milk but he can bray	I2
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So runs the story	U
And in vain self glory	U
Some Saints would sneer at Gubbins for his blindness	N2
But what the better are their pious saws	N2
To ailing souls than dry hee haws	N2
Without the milk of human kindness	N2

Thomas Hood

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