St. Jerome On Earth. Second Visit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEFGG HIJJKKCCC JJCCCLLMMNNOO GGPQRRSTTUC GGOOGGVVOOWWGGSSXXGG YY GGYYMJGG| This much I dare say that since lording and loitering hath come up preaching hath come down contrary to the Apostles' times For they preached and lorded not and now they lord and preach not Ever since the Prelates were made Lords and Nobles the plough standeth there is no work done people starve | A |
| Latimer Sermon of the Plough | B |
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| Once more said Jerome I'll run up and see | C |
| How the Church goes on and off set he | C |
| Just then the packet boat which trades | D |
| Betwixt our planet and the shades | D |
| Had arrived below with a freight so queer | E |
| My eyes said Jerome what have we here | F |
| For he saw when nearer he explored | G |
| They'd a cargo of Bishops' wigs aboard | G |
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| They are ghosts of wigs said Charon all | H |
| Once worn by nobs Episcopal | I |
| For folks on earth who've got a store | J |
| Of cast off things they'll want no more | J |
| Oft send them down as gifts you know | K |
| To a certain Gentleman here below | K |
| A sign of the times I plainly see | C |
| Said the Saint to himself as pondering he | C |
| Sailed off in the death boat gallantly | C |
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| Arrived on earth quoth he No more | J |
| I'll affect a body as before | J |
| For I think I'd best in the company | C |
| Of Spiritual Lords a spirit be | C |
| And glide unseen from See to See | C |
| But oh to tell what scenes he saw | L |
| It was more than Rabelais's pen could draw | L |
| For instance he found Exeter | M |
| Soul body inkstand all in a stir | M |
| For love of God for sake of King | N |
| For good of people no such thing | N |
| But to get for himself by some new trick | O |
| A shove to a better bishoprick | O |
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| He found that pious soul Van Mildert | G |
| Much with his money bags bewildered | G |
| Snubbing the Clerks of the Diocese | P |
| Because the rogues showed restlessness | Q |
| At having too little cash to touch | R |
| While he so Christianly bears too much | R |
| He found old Sarum's wits as gone | S |
| As his own beloved text in John | T |
| Text he hath prosed so long upon | T |
| That 'tis thought when askt at the gate of heaven | U |
| His name he'll answer John v | C |
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| But enough of Bishops I've had to day | G |
| Said the weary Saint I must away | G |
| Tho' I own I should like before I go | O |
| To see for once as I'm askt below | O |
| If really such odd sights exist | G |
| A regular six fold Pluralist | G |
| Just then he heard a general cry | V |
| There's Doctor Hodgson galloping by | V |
| Ay that's the man says the Saint to follow | O |
| And off he sets with a loud view hello | O |
| At Hodgson's heels to catch if he can | W |
| A glimpse of this singular plural man | W |
| But talk of Sir Boyle Roche's bird | G |
| To compare him with Hodgson is absurd | G |
| Which way sir pray is the doctor gone | S |
| He is now at his living at Hillingdon | S |
| No no you're out by many a mile | X |
| He's away at his Deanery in Carlisle | X |
| Pardon me sir but I understand | G |
| He's gone to his living in Cumberland | G |
| God bless me no he can't be there | Y |
| You must try St George's Hanover Square | Y |
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| Thus all in vain the Saint inquired | G |
| From living to living mockt and tired | G |
| 'Twas Hodgson here 'twas Hodgson there | Y |
| 'Twas Hodgson nowhere everywhere | Y |
| Till fairly beat the Saint gave o'er | M |
| And flitted away to the Stygian shore | J |
| To astonish the natives underground | G |
| With the comical things he on earth had found | G |
Thomas Moore
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