Church Extension. To The Editor Of The Morning Chronicle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D EFEF D GFGF EHEH IEIE JKJK D EELL| Sir A well known classical traveller while employed in exploring some time since the supposed site of the Temple of Diana of Ephesus was so fortunate in the course of his researches as to light upon a very ancient bark manuscript which has turned out on examination to be part of an old Ephesian newspaper a newspaper published as you will see so far back as the time when Demetrius the great Shrine Extender flourished | A |
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| I am Sir yours etc | B |
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| EPHESIAN GAZETTE | C |
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| Second edition | D |
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| Important event for the rich and religious | E |
| Great Meeting of Silversmiths held in Queen Square | F |
| Church Extension their object the excitement prodigious | E |
| Demetrius head man of the craft takes the chair | F |
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| Third edition | D |
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| The Chairman still up when our devil came away | G |
| Having prefaced his speech with the usual state prayer | F |
| That the Three headed Dian would kindly this day | G |
| Take the Silversmiths' Company under her care | F |
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| Being askt by some low unestablisht divines | E |
| When your churches are up where are flocks to be got | H |
| He manfully answered Let us build the shrines | E |
| And we care not if flocks are found for them or not | H |
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| He then added to show that the Silversmiths' Guild | I |
| Were above all confined and intolerant views | E |
| Only pay thro' the nose to the altars we build | I |
| You may pray thro' the nose to what altars you choose | E |
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| This tolerance rare from a shrine dealer's lip | J |
| Tho' a tolerance mixt with due taste for the till | K |
| So much charmed all the holders of scriptural scrip | J |
| That their shouts of Hear Hear are re echoing still | K |
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| Fourth edition | D |
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| Great stir in the Shrine Market altars to Phoebus | E |
| Are going dog cheap may be had for a rebus | E |
| Old Dian's as usual outsell all the rest | L |
| But Venus's also are much in request | L |
Thomas Moore
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