The Numbering Of The Clergy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD AE BFBF BABA ACAC BGBG HIHI JAJA| PARODY ON SIR CHARLES HAN WILLIAMS'S FAMOUS ODE | A |
| COME CLOE and GIVE ME SWEET KISSES | B |
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| We want more Churches and more Clergymen | C |
| Bishop of London's late Charge | D |
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| rectorum numerum terris pereuntibus augent | A |
| Claudian in Eutrop | E |
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| Come give us more Livings and Rectors | B |
| For richer no realm ever gave | F |
| But why ye unchristian objectors | B |
| Do ye ask us how many we crave | F |
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| Oh there can't be too many rich Livings | B |
| For souls of the Pluralist kind | A |
| Who despising old Crocker's misgivings | B |
| To numbers can ne'er be confined | A |
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| Count the cormorants hovering about | A |
| At the time their fish season sets in | C |
| When these models of keen diners out | A |
| Are preparing their beaks to begin | C |
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| Count the rooks that in clerical dresses | B |
| Flock round when the harvest's in play | G |
| And not minding the farmer's distresses | B |
| Like devils in grain peck away | G |
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| Go number the locusts in heaven | H |
| On the way to some titheable shore | I |
| And when so many Parsons you've given | H |
| We still shall be craving for more | I |
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| Then unless ye the Church would submerge ye | J |
| Must leave us in peace to augment | A |
| For the wretch who could number the Clergy | J |
| With few will be ever content | A |
Thomas Moore
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