Resolutions Passed At A Late Meeting Of Reverends And Right Reverends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEE FFCCCCFFGGG HIJJKKCCLL CCFFFFMMHHGG NHOOPPFFQQRR| Resolved to stick to every particle | A |
| Of every Creed and every Article | A |
| Reforming naught or great or little | A |
| We'll stanchly stand by every tittle | A |
| And scorn the swallow of that soul | B |
| Which cannot boldly bolt the whole | B |
| Resolved that tho' St Athanasius | C |
| In damning souls is rather spacious | C |
| Tho' wide and far his curses fall | D |
| Our Church hath stomach for them all | D |
| And those who're not content with such | E |
| May e'en be damned ten times as much | E |
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| Resolved such liberal souls are we | F |
| Tho' hating Nonconformity | F |
| We yet believe the cash no worse is | C |
| That comes from Nonconformist purses | C |
| Indifferent whence the money reaches | C |
| The pockets of our reverend breeches | C |
| To us the Jumper's jingling penny | F |
| Chinks with a tone as sweet as any | F |
| And even our old friends Yea and Nay | G |
| May thro' the nose for ever pray | G |
| If also thro' the nose they'll pay | G |
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| Resolved that Hooper Latimer | H |
| And Cranmer all extremely err | I |
| In taking such a low bred view | J |
| Of what Lords Spiritual ought to do | J |
| All owing to the fact poor men | K |
| That Mother Church was modest then | K |
| Nor knew what golden eggs her goose | C |
| The Public would in time produce | C |
| One Pisgah peep at modern Durham | L |
| To far more lordly thoughts would stir 'em | L |
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| Resolved that when we Spiritual Lords | C |
| Whose income just enough affords | C |
| To keep our Spiritual Lordships cosey | F |
| Are told by Antiquarians prosy | F |
| How ancient Bishops cut up theirs | F |
| Giving the poor the largest shares | F |
| Our answer is in one short word | M |
| We think it pious but absurd | M |
| Those good men made the world their debtor | H |
| But we the Church reformed know better | H |
| And taking all that all can pay | G |
| Balance the account the other way | G |
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| Resolved our thanks profoundly due are | N |
| To last month's Quarterly Reviewer | H |
| Who proves by arguments so clear | O |
| One sees how much he holds per year | O |
| That England's Church tho' out of date | P |
| Must still be left to lie in state | P |
| As dead as rotten and as grand as | F |
| The mummy of King Osymandyas | F |
| All pickled snug the brains drawn out | Q |
| With costly cerements swathed about | Q |
| And Touch me not those words terrific | R |
| Scrawled o'er her in good hieroglyphic | R |
Thomas Moore
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