Religion And Trade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFEF GHIH JDJD KLKL MCNC HOHO PGPH| Sir Robert Peel believed it was necessary to originate all respecting religion and trade in a Committee of the House | A |
| Church Extension May | B |
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| Say who was the wag indecorously witty | C |
| Who first in a statute this libel conveyed | D |
| And thus slyly referred to the selfsame committee | C |
| As matters congenial Religion and Trade | D |
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| Oh surely my Phillpotts 'twas thou didst the deed | E |
| For none but thyself or some pluralist brother | F |
| Accustomed to mix up the craft with the creed | E |
| Could bring such a pair thus to twin with each other | F |
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| And yet when one thinks of times present and gone | G |
| One is forced to confess on maturer reflection | H |
| That 'tisn't in the eyes of committees alone | I |
| That the shrine and the shop seem to have some connection | H |
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| Not to mention those monarchs of Asia's fair land | J |
| Whose civil list all is in god money paid | D |
| And where the whole people by royal command | J |
| Buy their gods at the government mart ready made | D |
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| There was also as mentioned in rhyme and in prose is | K |
| Gold heaped throughout Egypt on every shrine | L |
| To make rings for right reverend crocodiles' noses | K |
| Just such as my Phillpotts would look well in thine | L |
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| But one needn't fly off in this erudite mood | M |
| And 'tis clear without going to regions so sunny | C |
| That priests love to do the least possible good | N |
| For the largest most possible quantum of money | C |
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| Of him saith the text unto whom much is given | H |
| Of him much in turn will be also required | O |
| By me quoth the sleek and obese man of heaven | H |
| Give as much as you will more will still be desired | O |
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| More money more churches oh Nimrod hadst thou | P |
| 'Stead of Tower extension some shorter way gone | G |
| Hadst thou known by what methods we mount to heaven now | P |
| And tried Church extension the feat had been done | H |
Thomas Moore
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